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David Lodge
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born
in London, The United Kingdom
January 28, 1935
gender
male
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Changing Places
— published 1975 — 29 editions |
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Small World
— published 1984 — 34 editions |
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Nice Work
— published 1988 — 27 editions |
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Therapy
— published 1995 — 26 editions |
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Deaf Sentence
— published 2008 — 23 editions |
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Thinks . . .
— published 2001 — 21 editions |
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The British Museum Is Falling Down
— published 1965 — 15 editions |
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Paradise News
— published 1991 — 19 editions |
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The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
— published 1992 — 18 editions |
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How Far Can You Go?
— published 1980 — 16 editions |
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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”
― David Lodge, Small World
― David Lodge, Small World
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”
― David Lodge
― David Lodge
“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.”
― David Lodge
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.”
― David Lodge
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