[HN Gopher] David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic...
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       David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2025-01-07 19:42 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://archive.today/cLcWH
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lodge_(author)
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | In this vein of work, I also heartily recommend Kingsley Amis'
       | "Lucky Jim" (1954), which arguably began the "campus novel"
       | genre.
        
         | adamc wrote:
         | Yes! Also Richard Russo's "Straight Man", which might be my
         | favorite of all these novels about campus life.
        
       | adamc wrote:
       | I first encountered his novel "Small World" in graduate school,
       | and immediately became a fan. (It was on the reading list for one
       | of my girlfriend's courses.) Along with other novels like "Lucky
       | Jim" and "Straight Man" (and the other two novels in Lodge's
       | campus trilogy), it was a hilarious look at campus life. He will
       | be missed.
        
       | chinathrow wrote:
       | As a younger me, I dug out his e-mail address for a high school
       | project and sent him a message with questions about Changing
       | Places.
       | 
       | I still have the message I sent him in 2000 but can't find his
       | reply, unfortunately, but I got to send two additional messages
       | with questions. I was thrilled at the time to be able to contact
       | a famous writer and tell my class afterwards about it.
       | 
       | RIP.
        
       | turadg wrote:
       | I enjoyed the name Euphoria State University for his fictional
       | model of UC Berkeley.
       | 
       | To combine this news with the AI zeitgeist, consider reading his
       | 2001 novel, _Thinks..._.
        
       | p4bl0 wrote:
       | His _Campus trilogy_ is and probably will be forever in the list
       | of books that I recommend reading [1]. I really enjoyed reading
       | those a lot during my PhD.
       | 
       | [1] https://pablo.rauzy.name/miscellaneous.html#books
        
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