ABSTRACT
Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he has taught since 1960, David Lodge is married with two children. After graduating from London University, he spent two years, 1955–1957, as a conscript in the Royal Armoured Corps, an experience which gave him the subject for his angrily anti-establishment second novel, Ginger, You’re Barmy. Lodge’s exuberant satirical gifts found an equally apt subject for Changing Places, in which two academics, Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp – the one an Englishman, the other an American – suffer perfectly observed cultural shocks when they swap countries and campuses. Blending benevolent comedy and satire, Lodge’s most recent novel takes the form of a quest: Small World relates the global romping and plotting of assorted academics, including Zapp and Swallow.
