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| Title | : | The British Museum Is Falling Down |
| Author | : | David Lodge |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 182 pages |
| Published | : | September 5th 1989 by Penguin Books (first published 1965) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. European Literature. British Literature. Novels. Contemporary |
David Lodge
Paperback | Pages: 182 pages Rating: 3.66 | 2569 Users | 162 Reviews
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around...And that, precisely, is the dilemma that preoccupies Adam Appleby as he begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Adam is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic in the days before the Pill. He is also married, has three children, and is not looking forward to the possiblity of a fourth.
On this foggy day in London, however, work and life conspire against him. As Adam makes his bumbling way through a series of misadventures that do little to alleviate his anxiety, the reader is treated to a hilarious and heartfelt tour of academia that only David Lodge could have created.
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| Original Title: | The British Museum Is Falling Down |
| ISBN: | 0140124195 (ISBN13: 9780140124194) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Clare, Dominic Kitchen, Barbara, Edward, Adam Appleby, Camel, Francis Maple, Padre Wildfire, Pond, Señora Green, Padre Finbar, Profesor Briggs, Profesor Bane |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.66 From 2569 Users | 162 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books The British Museum Is Falling Down
This book was enjoyable, but very much "of it's time". As a snapshot of a 1960's Catholic scholar it was very interesting and well-written, also quite funny in places. However it is so much a piece "of it's time" that a lot of it just didn't translate well and I felt I was quite often missing the joke. Reading this book was like being at a party full of people who have a different first language from you - let's say they are all Swedish - even if they are all very nice and decide to speak to youDavid Lodge is generally known for his humorous novels that satirize the academic life-- and while there's certainly plenty of that in this short volume, it's really more a novel about how our sex lives and our religious lives intersect, and, in particular, about the struggles facing married Catholics in the days before the Vatican approved contraception. In that regard it's like a companion piece to 'Souls and Bodies,' but a quicker and more appealing read, if only because it centers on one
This book deserves better. I feel it should deserve better but somehow it stops you from falling for it. It's so clever you miss it. I missed the literary references too, except Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence. It is an exercise in cleverness but in the process it looses the less erudite readers, like me. It's funny yes, understatedly so, which is possibly the most difficult style of humour to do. Here, it works some of the times, but doesn't at others. The comic appeal of Natural Law and
I got into David Lodge following recommendation from friends in the world of academia, who tell me that, if you've spent your life in and around universities, there's much that you'll recognise in his comedy. This one contains his much quoted remark that "literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children, whereas real life is the other way round."It's written as a literary parody, which I confess I didn't notice until the end (I've never read James Joyce but the
Dear David,I hope this review finds you well.You will be delighted to know that I've just finished to read "The British Museum is Falling Down" that juvenile novel of yours which, although widely ignored back in 1965, later became one of the most successful books you wrote.Dave, you know how much I like pretty much everything you wrote (apart from literary criticism, but that's my Achille's heel) and I would like to be frank with you as I've always been: this novel disappointed me.Perhaps, it's
Some fellow Joycean recommended this book to me; whom I don't recall.The British Museum is Falling Down: timidly parodical, quirky British humor mimicking Modern literary styles while betraying scrimpy style of its own. Faintly quaint, or quaintly faint. A cross-pollination of problems attendant upon questions of human fertility, religion and esoteric literary research that is perfectly appealing if that particular three-way intersection holds out a compelling interest. Otherwise think of a sort
The heart of this novel is the old British Library, whose reading room was then at the centre of the British Museum. A great blue dome of thought that was long since incapable of stretching over the all the book held treasures of human learning. There, in that library, our hero, a post-graduate student working on his thesis with a young wife and a number of very young children, works away. At home the prospect of his wife being perpetually pregnant or of unstinting abstinence looms for the
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