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British satirist Lodge's latest concerns a successful sitcom writer suffering from an existential malaise.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Lodge is a witty storyteller with an unerring instinct for the absurd, whether he's poking fun at academic life or mocking the excesses of tourism, as he did in his last novel, Paradise News (1992). Here he takes on the self-important but quite silly world of British television. His hero, Tubby Passmore, is a wildly successful sitcom screenwriter with a passion for Kierkegaard. Well into his fifties and quite wealthy, he knows he should be happy with his athletic university professor wife, his big country house and London apartment, his popular series, and his platonic girlfriend, but instead he's suffering from free-floating angst and a host of nagging yet elusive ailments. All this has turned him into a therapy addict, and he sneaks off to his psychoanalyst, acupuncturist, physical therapist, and orthopedic surgeon as though they were secret lovers, but none bring relief. Only writing helps, and Tubby's droll accounts of his hilarious misadventures are rich amalgams of innocence and irony. With this larky novel, Lodge has proved once again that fiction can have a strong moral center and still be utterly charming. Donna Seaman
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A book review of "Therapy" by David Lodge,
Von soniascanio, (Pisa, Italia) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Therapy (Taschenbuch)
I would like to review of "Therapy" by David Lodge, a post-modernist writer, who is also Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham and a famous literary critic. "Therapy" is the first book I have read by this author and it made a deep impression on me for Lodge's excellent writing skills. My attention was immediately captured and held throughout the novel. The book is a brilliant, hilarious, first-person introspection, an exceptionally moving story that leaves the reader laughing and thinking at the same time. The main character is Tubby Passmore, a successful TV sitcom screenwriter whose creeping mid-life crisis has turned him into a therapy-addict. With the help of Kierkegaard's philosophy, which promoted the centrality of individual choice, he tries to get rid of his latent ANGST. All the other characters are so amazingly well developed that I had a clear picture of them in my mind. I think that the meeting with the pious Maureen, Tubby's first girlfriend, and the final, clarifying exchange of views with the self-assured Sally, his athletic ex-wife, are the most resolutive, turning point of his life, because they give Tubby the opportunity to reflect on his past years, on his mistakes, and push him to understand himself better and to find the key to his problems. In conformity with post-modernist techniques, Lodge uses here different styles, in which he gradually reflects the change in point of view. The language is however very simple and colloquial, although hilariously amusing. I would suggest this book to anybody who is looking for an intelligent, involving and, at the same time, funny book, because "Therapy" is a well written comic story with a strong moral teaching which captures the spirit of human subconscious.
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fusion of brows (middle and high),
Von Bill Chaisson (Rochester, NY) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Therapy (Taschenbuch)
David Lodge writes in such a breezy, amusing fashion that you might not think to look for anything more in _Therapy_ than a funny story about a neurotic middle aged guy. But, in fact, there is a lot going on in this book. Kierkegaard is not merely added to the plot as some sort of comic device to indicate that Tubby Passmore is off his head. This book actually explains how the thought of the "father of existentialism" is relevant to our lives in the late, late 20th century.There is a fair amount of social class consciousness in _Therapy_. Tubby is from the working class but has made a fortune by writing a successful television series. In a certain sense he is the best that we can hope for from the nouveau riche: he is humane in spite of his wealth. His wife came from genteel poverty and has aged into a rather severe and vain woman. His friend Amy has risen from the working middle class into the show biz upper middle and more fully embraces the materialism and pretension than does Tubby. The quest to rediscover the whereabouts of his childhood girlfriend combines the themes of existentialism and class consciousness in a way that is both effortless and admirable. The entire book is told from Tubby's point of view, written in the form of a journal and monologues. His reliability as a narrator is called into question by the content of the monologues until you realize who the author is. A very clever narrative device, but not overly clever. You don't feel manipulated because of the revelations that it produces. I think perhaps that the only reason I have for not giving the book 5 stars is that I am not yet middle aged and so I didn't experience the Internal Derangement of the Mind that I might if (or when) I read this book 20 years from now. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Therapy (Taschenbuch)
As an American female twenty something, why would I want to read about a British middle aged male? The answer is because from Tubby's perspective I can see how the middle of one's life is only the beginning. David Lodge has created a hysterical novel. Yet his in-depth look at what happens when one's life falls apart demonstrates how enjoyable it can be to pick up the pieces.
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