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1960 novel by David Lodge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Picturegoers (1960) is the first novel by British writer David Lodge.
Author | David Lodge |
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Language | English |
Publisher | MacGibbon & Kee |
Publication date | 1960 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
The novel relates the story of a group of Roman Catholics residing in London.[1] It interweaves scenes at and near Brickley Palladium in south-east London with characters like Mark Underwood, a Catholic undergraduate, and Clare representing different attitudes to religion. The novel delves into their relationship of Mark and Clare and the tension that starts to redefine their personalities.[2] Movies are used as a touchstone for exploring Catholic values in a changing world, where the cinema introduces values and behaviors from the greater society that differ from those of the traditional community. Various characters are portrayed, representing, to a certain extent, common types of people in a small earlyish twentieth-century British London neighborhood, though the focus is on one lower-middle-class family.
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