David Lodge
Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
January 28, 1935
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Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
66 editions
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1975
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Small World (The Campus Trilogy, #2)
66 editions
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1984
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Nice Work (The Campus Trilogy, #3)
58 editions
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published
1988
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Deaf Sentence
48 editions
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published
2008
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Therapy
60 editions
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published
1995
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Thinks . . .
44 editions
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published
2001
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The British Museum Is Falling Down
50 editions
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published
1965
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The Art of Fiction
62 editions
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published
1992
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Paradise News
22 editions
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published
1991
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How Far Can You Go?
37 editions
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1980
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“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”
― Small World
― Small World
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”
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“I've been in love with you for weeks.'
There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'
Haven't you ever been in love, then?'
When I was younger,' she says, 'I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes.'
What the hell does that mean?'
We aren't essences, Vic. We aren't unique individual essences existing prior to language. There is only language.”
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There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'
Haven't you ever been in love, then?'
When I was younger,' she says, 'I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes.'
What the hell does that mean?'
We aren't essences, Vic. We aren't unique individual essences existing prior to language. There is only language.”
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