Questa serie esplora con umorismo gli scontri culturali e il mondo accademico attraverso la storia di due professori che si scambiano le cattedre. Seguiamo i loro shock culturali e le avventure inaspettate in terre straniere, che portano a situazioni assurde e argute. La narrazione tocca temi di disordini studenteschi e diversi ambienti universitari, ma offre soprattutto uno sguardo intelligente e divertente sui destini umani e sull'adattabilità. È un'opera che intrattiene indipendentemente dalla familiarità con il mondo accademico.
Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein.
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge’s satirical Small World . It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air.
"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York Times Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds--and about themselves.
This volume brings together David Lodge's three brilliantly comic novels: Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work. which revolve around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.