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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE NOVEL by David Lodge Secker, 17.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 320, ISBN 0436210053
Introducing a book of his pieces for the weekly press (Thoughts in the Wilderness, 1957, still worth a read for its tingle of honest controversy), J. B. Priestley declared that reprinting opinions between hard covers too often sounded `like a man shouting in a drawing-room'. No such complaint can be made of David Lodge's nicely modulated voice. In these `connected essays', variously published in literary magazines or delivered as lectures to academic audiences, his tone scarcely rises above a whisper. He is a...
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