الرواية اليوم

by Malcolm Bradbury, أحمد عمر شاهين (مترجم)

- مقدمة مالكولم برادبري
- في مواجهة الجدب, مشهد جدلي: بقلم أيريس مردوخ
- كتابة الرواية الأمريكية: بقلم فيليب روث
- الرواية كبحث: بقلم ميشيل بوتور
- ملاحظات حول الرواية الأمريكية المعاصرة: بقلم سول بيلو
- أدب الإستنزاف: بقلم جون بارث
- الروائي في مفترق الطرق: بقلم ديفيد لودج
- بيت الرواية, مقابلات مع سبعة روائيين: حوارات فرانك كيرمود
- ملاحظات حول رواية لم تنته بعد: بقلم جون فاولز
- ألست صغيرا على كتابة مذكراتك؟ - بقلم ب.س. جونسون
- مقدمة المفكرة الذهبية: بقلم دوريس لسينج
- واستنفذت شهرزاد حبكها, واستمرت في الحديث, وأصغى الملك وحار..مقال في الرواية الجديدة: بقلم فيليب ستيفيك

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic. He is best known to a wider public as a novelist. Although he is often compared with David Lodge, his friend and a contemporary as a British exponent of the campus novel genre, Bradbury's books are consistently darker in mood and less playful both in style and language. His best known novel The History Man, published in 1975, is a dark satire of academic life in the "glass and steel" universities—the then-fashionable newer universities of England that had followed their "redbrick" predecessors—which in 1981 was made into a successful BBC television serial. The protagonist is the hypocritical Howard Kirk, a sociology professor at the fictional University of Watermouth.

He completed his PhD in American studies at the University of Manchester in 1962, moving to the University of East Anglia (his second novel, Stepping Westward, appeared in 1965), where he became Professor of American Studies in 1970 and launched the world-renowned MA in Creative Writing course, which Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro both attended. He published Possibilities: Essays on the State of the Novel in 1973, The History Man in 1975, Who Do You Think You Are? in 1976, Rates of Exchange in 1983, Cuts: A Very Short Novel in 1987, retiring from academic life in 1995. Malcolm Bradbury became a Commander of the British Empire in 1991 for services to Literature, and was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2000, again for services to Literature.

Bradbury was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher; an expert on the modern novel, he published books on Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster, as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American.

He also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Gravy Train, the sequel The Gravy Train Goes East (which explored life in Bradbury's fictional Slaka), and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends and Kingsley Amis's The Green Man. His last television script was for Dalziel and Pascoe series 5, produced by Andy Rowley. The episode 'Foreign Bodies' was screened on BBC One on July 15, 2000.

Reviews

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok. I found this more useful than illuminating. The ideas won't really be (or they weren't to me) ground-breaking, but it is very useful in that it shows you how different authors think novels should be written, and their beliefs about what novels are for.