' Fans of English letters and lore will love this. Herein find the Grail legend transmuted to the groves of academe on the wing, the world of internatuinal lit crit conferences narrated in a post-Marxist, Post Freudian, pot-humanist, post structuralist stylee. It's one of the funnuest books I've read in years.
A successor to the brilliant Changing Places, Small World is not only fuction about fiction, but fiction for people who think about fuction, who find themselves pinballed in a farce whuch knows no bounds of coincidence and improbability. Like a striptease, layers of plot and meaning (a shifting commodity) unpeel towards denouement yet postponed gratification.
But Lodge is no Scritti Politti of English fiction: he pulls out plums of trousers-down-belly-laughter from reams of consistently vigorous writing. PhD phun, a highbrow Tom Sharp, this book is highly recommended.; ' Matt Snow
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