Titre : | The British Museum is falling down |
Auteurs : | David Lodge |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1983 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-14-006214-4 |
Format : | 173 pages / Illustré / 18x11 cm |
Langues: | Anglais |
Langues originales: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | 823/.914 |
Résumé : |
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child. 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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Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité | L'etagère |
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NEW-007914 | 823/.914 LOD | Livre | A Rousen | Roman | Disponible | R 3.10 G |