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The British Museum Is Falling Down

David Lodge

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 2569 Users | 162 Reviews

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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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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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Title	:	The British Museum Is Falling Down
Author	:	David Lodge
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	September 5th 1989 by Penguin Books (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. European Literature. British Literature. Novels. Contemporary

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So I began to suspect the presence of pastiche within the text quickly enough (my edition doesn't mention that anywhere until you get to the afterwords by the way). That was a problem in my enjoyment of the book however: I could see there were shifts in the narration, but apart from three cases, I didn't know the author "pastiched" well enough (or often enough, at all) to recognise it and appreciate the effort. Which is too bad because it's the kind of intertextuality that I rather like, when I

Has a lot of common with Lodge's later novel, How Far Can You Go? Like that book, this is a comic novel about British Catholics. If Catholic beliefs seem to you self-evident tripe, Lodge provides enough context to help you understand, even sympathise with his poor characters, why they accept something you would not. If you want all the Catholic perks, they feel, you can't pick and mix minor things like controlling your own fertility. One feels genuine pity for the hero's wife (and Lodge's) who

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 you

Delightfully funny with a charming epilogue. Each chapter is a parody of another novelists' style.

This contains a wonderfully accurate description of the loneliness and despair of the dissertation writer.

Very funny and gentle ribbing of literary and academic culture, as well as pre-Vatican 2 Cathoic culture.

'Now I know what you're going to say that the novelist still has to invent a lot but that's just the point. There've been such a fantastic number of novels written in the last couple of centuries that they've just about exhausted the possibilities of life. So all of us, you see, are really enacting events that have already been written about in some novel or other. Of course, most people don't realize this - they fondly imagine that their lives are unique....jus as well too, because when you do