Open AccessNice Work de David Lodge : Un « Condition of England novel » des années 1980 ?
Author(s) -
Armelle Parey
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
lisa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1762-6153
DOI - 10.4000/lisa.2910
Subject(s) - rewriting , nice , realism , art history , reflexivity , work (physics) , art , philosophy , history , literature , sociology , computer science , engineering , anthropology , mechanical engineering , programming language
In Nice Work, David Lodge appropriates the model of the « condition-of-England novel » which he transposes into the 1980s. More than a mere transposition, Nice Work turns out to be an open rewriting of the Victorian novels quoted in epigraphs since the text, with its comical aspect and its auto-reflexive dimension, distances itself from realism. Far from being innocent, this rewriting considers critically the Thatcher era as well as contemporary literary theory and gives a discerning homage to Victorian novels