گراهام گرین

by David Lodge, کریم امامی (Translator)

Columbia Essays on Modern Writers Number 17.

77 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

David John Lodge was an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T.S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as Point of View (Henry James), The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf) and Interior Monologue (James Joyce), beginning with Beginning and ending with Ending.

Reviews

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

baraye kesayi ke be greene alagheh daran ,ketabe mofidie.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

This review of Graham Greene was written in 1966 when David Lodge was a Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. Subsequently he retired from teaching and became a famous novelist on his own (including one of the funniest books of all time, Deaf Sentence.). In this pamphlet, # 17 of the Columbia University "Essays on Modern Writers," he does an adequate job covering all of Greene's work up to 1966, in a fairly pedantic way. In conclusion he writes: "...among his own generation of British novelists it is difficult to find his equal, and that he has produced a number of novels that seem certain to live, by the force with which they embody a highly individual, genuinely challenging view of life."