THE YEAR OF HENRY JAMES

Book ID/图书代码： 03540006B02481

English Summary/英文概要： Where do novelists get their ’ideas’ from? How do they develop an idea into a narrative with a specific and individual form? How far is the reception of a work of fiction conditioned by factors outside the writer’s control? In the first part of this book, in revealing and often amusing reminiscence, David Lodge traces the history of his recent novel about Henry James, Author, from the very first mention of the basic idea in his notebook, through the processes of research and writing, to the publication and reception of the finished book, which was adversely affected by the appearance of another novel on the same subject some six months earlier. These two were not the only novels inspired by Henry James in circulation in the year 2004, a phenomenon which Lodge sees with hindsight as ’a coincidence waiting to happen’, with ironic consequences that the Master himself might have invented. The essays in the second part pursue the themes of genesis, composition and reception in the work of other novelists. There are studies of key works by James himself, H.G.Wells, Vladimir Nabokov, J.M.Coetzee and Umberto Eco, and essays on the literary sources of Graham Greene’s imagination and on a si Collectively the contents of this book throw a brilliant light on the dominant literary form of the last two centuries, in its twin aspects as work of art and commodity.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小說家們的靈感都從何而來？他們又如何將靈感轉化為文字，為讀者們娓娓道來？在此書中，作者回顧了自己因亨利•詹姆斯而獲得靈感，進而創作兩部作品的經歷，同時也涉及了眾多文學大家，其中包括了H.G.Wells、Vladimir Nabokov、J.M.Coetzee以及Umberto Eco等等。(RUBY)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 戴维·洛奇(David Lodge, 1935— )是一位享有世界声誉的英国小说家兼文学批评家。他从1960年发表作品,至今已有11部长篇小说问世,它们被翻译成了25种文字在全球各地出版。《小世界》等作品中译本的出版使他在中国，特别是在中国知识界广为人知。他的小说以机智诙谐的语言、有趣的构思、各种传统和新潮小说技法的灵活运用,受到了包括普通读者、知识分子和批评家在内的广大读者的喜爱。
戴维·洛奇1935年生于伦敦，先后就读于伦敦大学和伯明翰大学，获博士学位。从1960年至1987年一直在伯明翰大学英语系任教。1987年提前退休成为专业作家，但仍为伯明翰大学荣誉教授，并一直担任英国皇家文学会会员。
作为身兼二职的学者型作家，戴维·洛奇总是试图在小说中反映学术界的各种现象。他的最著名的小说几乎都是以知识分子（校园内外的教授与学生）为主要人物，以学术、文化界写作背景的。他的著名的“校园三部曲”可谓这方面的代表，这三部小说——《换位》、《小世界》和《美好的工作》具有互文关系，反映的基本上是与学术界相关的故事。
DAVID LODGE 的作品还包括《治疗》和最近的《思索》等,以及一系列的文学评论,如《小说的艺术》和《写作的技巧》。
David Lodge’s novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Therapy and, most recently, Thinks... He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, The Practice of Writing, and Consciousness and the Novel.

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