David Lodge RIP

[Pulcinella]

Times obituary here:

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1b9f2741-60c9-4083-8bfb-4a56df695f54?shareToken=20db4b30c84bca9a3a345934e2f00999

[smittims]

Thanks for posting that. Although it's over fifty years since I last saw him, I remember him well.

[Roslynmuse]

One of the authors I enjoyed most in my 20s and 30s. More recently I got much pleasure from his books about Henry James and H G Wells and found his last novel, Deaf Sentence, touching - I must go back to it, I only read it once when it first came out.

[Ein Heldenleben]

One of the authors I enjoyed most in my 20s and 30s. More recently I got much pleasure from his books about Henry James and H G Wells and found his last novel, Deaf Sentence, touching - I must go back to it, I only read it once when it first came out.

Yes in my view our greatest comic novelist . Yes better than Waugh , Wodehouse , and Amis. Those Wells and James books being particularly good examples in that they combine the comic with the deeply serious. Changing Places the best comic novel since Decline and Fall and in some ways funnier?

[Barbirollians]

Sad news - a very fine novelist but I cannot agree funnier than Wodehouse.