濂戒功鎺ㄨ崘锛歋mall World by David Lodge | Mar 17 2005- 在上海长乐老的旧书店里发现了这本书的中译本。书里描写了学术界的荒诞和堕落。在以享乐主义为主要精神气质的后现代环境里，学院里是一样的污浊，学者们争名逐利，教授与老处女一夜风流，学术会议不过是变相的旅游节目等等。
这本书被称作是西方的“围城”，学者的罗曼司。Lodge在书里面也是大掉书袋，到处都是文学典故和英国幽默。
文学教授、学者会非常喜欢这本书。
下面是amazon上的介绍。
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Amusing and Entertaining, November 13, 2001
Reviewer: Elizabeth Hendry (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
David Lodge's Small World is an amusing, entertaining look at the world of academia, particularly the world of English literature, and all of the ridiculous people who inhabit it. I truly enjoy Lodge's work, but I have to say, this isn't my favorite. It's still terrific, but, in my opinion, not his strongest work. It starts off a little slow and many of the characters, while funny, are a bit predictable. I also think this novel didn't really stand the test of time. That being said, it is a funny and engaging read, certain to make you chuckle and even laugh out loud. It's just not Lodge's best work, but Lodge on a bad day is still infinitely better than most other writers on a good day.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Possibly the funniest book ever written., January 11, 2001
Reviewer: Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
As a teenager I reveled in the picaresque, occasionally perverse, peregrinations of Fielding's "Tom Jones." Hours of watching Laurel and Hardy and The 3 Stooges had convinced me that literature was incapable of affording the same intensity of pleasure. But Fielding's writing showed me otherwise. Nevertheless, I had never experienced the power of literature to induce uncontrollable physical laughter, akin to the audible response resonating throughout a movie theater, until reading "Small World." Never mind the parody of the Parsifal legend or grail quest, the rewriting of "The Fairie Queen" and "The Wasteland," or the send-up of not merely current literary criticism but many of its celebrated gurus. My wife had none of this background, and yet when I read the novel out loud to her, she was no less incapacitated by the force of the farce than I had been during my first reading (no, I don't think she was laughing at my recitation).
One caveat: I thought the novel would provide college students with an excellent introduction to numerous archetypal themes, canonical works, and schools of literary theory. Forget it. A generation brought up on Pauly Shore and Adam Sandler seems incapable of finding humor, let alone meaning, in language as well crafted as Lodge's.
多谢推荐。86年在英国学过 David Lodge's novel "How Far Can You Go?" 很精彩。久违了！回头找 Small World 来看看。