OPREANU LUCIA - The British Museum is Falling Down: the Roots of David Lodge’s Academic Echo-Land
(pag. 77-83)
One of the most frequently discussed aspects of David Lodge’s fiction consists in the intertextual complexity of his novels and the ways in which echoes of countless texts are interwoven in the structure of new and original works. The present paper aims to analyse the various types of such echoes present in one of his first novels, The British Museum is Falling Down, identifying the ways in which it anticipates the increasingly elaborated intertextuality of later works and focusing on Adam Appleby’s anxieties of influence and troubled interactions with various literary texts in order to emphasise David Lodge’s eventual ability to eschew such worries and successfully use the works of the past for his own creative purposes.