David Lodge
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Changing Places
The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy, Changing Places is a funny and wise tale of academic ill-manners - David Lodge at his comic best.
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
'One of the funniest but - much more importantly - one of the most truthful of postwar British novelists' Jonathan Coe
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Consciousness And The Novel
The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' Observer
How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200 years - from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis, Henry James to Philip Roth - David Lodge pursues this question with characteristic verve and wit. One of the best novelists and critics of his generation, Lodge is the perfect guide to look afresh at the mysterious workings of the creative mind.
The Man Who Wouldnt Get Up and Other Stories
The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics. A nameless man, who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A sociologist recalls how he learned his first and formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers and magazines up and down the platforms of Waterloo station. Some years before the era of the Pill and the Permissive Society, four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together, where the climate is sultry and sex is on everyone's mind. And a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circumstances to pursue the perfect wedding at all costs. These are some of the characters that populate David Lodge's shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining short stories, collected here for the very first time. What prompted their publication in this form is a short story in itself, told by the author in his Foreword.
Secret Thoughts
Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing at a university where Ralph Messenger, a cognitive scientist with a special interest in Artificial
Intelligence and an incorrigible womaniser, is director of a prestigious research institute. He is an atheist and a materialist; she is a Catholic who has lost her faith but still yearns for the consolations of religion. Ralph is attracted to Helen a
nd she, in spite of her principles, to him. They argue about the nature of human consciousness, and the different ways it is examined in science and literature, as she resists with weakening resolution Ralph's efforts to seduce her. David Lodge has d
istilled the story of his acclaimed novel Thinks...to create a witty and absorbing drama about a moral, emotional and intellectual struggle between two exceptional people.
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Román s ironickou nadsázkou popisuje jeden semestr na anglické univerzitě a profesní i sexuální vztahy mezi profesory. Hostující profesorka tvůrčího psaní, která se ocitá na univerzitě bez přátel a je frustrovaná předcházejícími událostmi, naváže vztah s
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Deaf sentence
Retired Professor of Lingustics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. But her increasingly bizarre requests cannot all be blamed on his defective hearing. So much for growing old gracefully...
Lacná kniha Ako, prosím? (-10%)
Profesor Desmond Bates odchádza do predčasného dôchodku. Vôbec si ho však nevie užívať. Chýba mu zmysluplná rutina akademického života, no vedecká práca ho už nenapĺňa. Kým on sa lúči s profesionálnym životom, manželkina kariéra začína prekvitať. Jeho úloha sa zredukuje na muža v domácnosti. Monotónne dni mu narúšajú len únavné návštevy Londýna, kde chodí kontrolovať svojho tvrdohlavého 89-ročného otca. To všetko však nie je nič v porovnaní s jeho problémami so sluchom. Hovorí sa, že hluchota je smiešna a slepota tragická. Je to naozaj tak? Práve vďaka svojej hluchote sa Desmond nechtiac zapletie s mladou ženou, ktorej správanie ho vyvedie z rovnováhy. Ako, prosím? je vtipný a zároveň dojemný román. Je to skvelá úvaha o snahe muža vysporiadať sa s hluchotou a smrťou, starnutím a smrteľnosťou, komédiou a tragédiou v ľudskom živote.
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Thinks
Ralph Messenger is an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research. Novelist Helen Reed arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament, they begin a secret affair - with complicated consequences, comic and tragic, for those around them.
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Když se usedlý učitýlek Philip Swallow z univerzity v anglické Papridgi ocitne na semestrálním pobytu v kalifornské Euforii a na jeho židli výměnou přistane zámořské pedagogické eso Morris Zapp, je o zábavu postaráno. Pod taktovkou klasika žánru univerzitního románu se v obou městech začnou dít věci, až se laik diví, expert žasne a publikum se chechtá. Ctihodní pánové v hostitelské zemi pořádně obnaží své kulturní i rodinné zázemí, sebe sama a taky celou škálu komických úletů britských a amerických intelektuálů. Univerzity jsou sice podle Davida Lodge „katedrálami moderního věku“, do jejichž profesorských rituálů nemá venkovní svět co mluvit, ale pokud zrovna zuří sexuální revoluce roku 1969, proč hnít v akademických věžích ze slonoviny?
Interpret: Jaromír Dulava, Jan Vondráček, Jitka Ježková, Klára Sedláčková Oltová
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Picturegoers
Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picture goers who touch and shape each other's destinies. Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy. In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.
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Lacná kniha Výkvět mužství (-50%)
Nejnovější a nejšťavnatější román britského novelisty a humoristy Davida Lodgea vypráví pravdivý příběh o lidské vášni a posedlosti, ztrátách pozdního života i humoru nadcházejícího konce.
H. G. Wells byl jedním z nejpronikavějších autorů, vizionářů a milovníků 20. století.
Proslavil se nejen nejčastěji filmovanými romány z oblasti science fiction (Válka světů, Stroj času, Ostrov dr. Moreaua), ale také revolučními postoji v oblasti sociální politiky nebo třeba volné lásky. K jeho známým patřily nejvýznačnější osobnosti tehdejšího světa.
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Výkvět mužství
Nejnovější a nejšťavnatější román britského novelisty a humoristy Davida Lodgea vypráví pravdivý příběh o lidské vášni a posedlosti, ztrátách pozdního života i humoru nadcházejícího konce.
H. G. Wells byl jedním z nejpronikavějších autorů, vizionářů a milovníků 20. století.
Proslavil se nejen nejčastěji filmovanými romány z oblasti science fiction (Válka světů, Stroj času, Ostrov dr. Moreaua), ale také revolučními postoji v oblasti sociální politiky nebo třeba volné lásky. K jeho známým patřily nejvýznačnější osobnosti tehdejšího světa.
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Lacná kniha Výkvět mužství (-90%)
Nejnovější a nejšťavnatější román britského novelisty a humoristy Davida Lodgea vypráví pravdivý příběh o lidské vášni a posedlosti, ztrátách pozdního života i humoru nadcházejícího konce.
H. G. Wells byl jedním z nejpronikavějších autorů, vizionářů a milovníků 20. století.
Proslavil se nejen nejčastěji filmovanými romány z oblasti science fiction (Válka světů, Stroj času, Ostrov dr. Moreaua), ale také revolučními postoji v oblasti sociální politiky nebo třeba volné lásky. K jeho známým patřily nejvýznačnější osobnosti tehdejšího světa.
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Man of Parts
The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic common touch which brought him into contact with most of the important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time; his plunge into socialist politics; and, his belief in free love, and energetic practice of it. Arguing with himself about his conduct, he relives his relationships with two wives and many mistresses, especially the brilliant student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West, both of whom bore him children, with dramatic and long-lasting consequences. Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel; a feminist womaniser, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human.
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Changing Places
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...




















