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Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air.… (mais)
First read as a new lecturer, and again as a retired prof (when the situations looks much more familiar). Although the plot is worthy of a Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera, Lodge's 1980s academia still rings true a half century later. I chuckled throughout, but the situations, scheming personalities and invented contexts - especially the myriad layers of academic conferences, scrabbles for posts and praise - also reminded me of how good it was to retire. ( )
Un joven profesor universitario se enamora perdidamente de una bella y misteriosa muchacha a la que conoce en un seminario de literatura y se lanza en su persecución por medio mundo. Viaja de un congreso académico a otro, con continuos cambios de continente, y en su periplo en pos de su amada se va topando con una variopinta fauna de intelectuales de postín y prestigiosos académicos, conferenciantes internacionales para los que los aviones se han acabado convirtiendo en su verdadero hogar. David Lodge retrata el enloquecido mundo de esta errante tribu cultural —en el que reinan las envidias, intrigas, zancadillas, bajos instintos, arrebatos de lujuria y mezquindades varias— con una jocosa ironía y crea una comedia repleta de situaciones desternillantes, en la que además se permite jugar con guiños tomados de las novelas románticas y del ciclo artúrico y dar un divertido y malévolo repaso a las teorías literarias hoy día en boga.
No longer fascinated by the book's simultaneous following of several characters (I’ve read quite a few like that by now), and somewhat bored now by the heterosexual romances' passages, I still have a soft spot for it, if only because of the Zapp lecture on "every decoding is another encoding", which more or less precisely describes my own attitude towards literature ... and indeed, verbal communication as a whole. ( )
Una de las peores traducciones que he leído en mi vida. Tengo una lista de las siete peores traducciones que he leído y Esteban/Esteve Riambau (cambia de nombre según a qué lengua traduce) es el traductor de una de ellas. Leyendo esta traducción, se podría "retraducir" el libro al inglés casi palabra por palabra. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Mary With all my love
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Like Changing Places, to which it is a kind of sequel, Small World resembles what is sometimes called the real world, without corresponding exactly to it, and is peopled by figments of the imagination (the name of one of the minor characters has been changed in later editions to avoid misunderstanding on this score).
Author's note.
When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with that liquid by whose power the flowers are engendered; when the zephyr, too, with its dulcet breath, has breathed life into the tender new shoots in every copse and on every heath, and the young sun has run half his course in the sign of the Ram, and the little birds that sleep all night with theeir eyes open give song (so Nature prompts them in their hearts), then, as the poet Geoffrey Chaucer observed many years ago, folk long to go on pilgrimages. Only, thes days, professional people call them conferences.
Prologue.
"April is the cruellest month", Persse McGarrigle quoted silently to himself, gazing through grimy windowpanes at the unseasonable snow crusting the lawns and flowerbeds of the Rummidge campus.
Part I, chapter one.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Real romance is a pre-novelistic kind of narrative. It's full of adventure and coincidence and surprises and marvels, and has lots of characters who are lost or enchanted or wandering about looking for each other, or for the Grail, or something like that.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
He wondered where in all the small, narrow world he should begin to look for her.
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air.
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