Entre el realismo y la experimentación: La obra creativa de David Lodge

Abstract

This essay presents an overall view of David Lodge's fiction from Ginger, You're Barmy (1962) to Small World (1984), in an attempt to illustrate the main tendencies in contemporary English fiction since the end of the fifties. Humour, social realism, the break of traditional forms and genres, the heritage of Modernism, and experimentalism are among the topics discussed in this paper; special attention is also paid to Lodge's reflections on the contemporary novel in his critical writings, when this seems relevant to understand his fiction.