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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best academic comic novel
Along with To the Hermitage, Bradbury's last ever novel, Doctor Criminale is a quintessential scholarly comedy that manages to engage literary themes from Borges to Derrida and back again without breaking a sweat or, worse still, appearing pretentious. In short, a thinking person's David Lodge and definitely worth (if the publisher should happen to read this) a reprint.
Published on October 11, 2004 by Ben the Pedant
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3.0 out of 5 stars
My introduction to Malcolm Bradbury
I was not tempted to write a review of Doctor Criminale until I read one dated 1992 in the Independent newspaper (UK) that thoroughly ripped it up and down shortly after the book was published. Without using the word cliche (or perhaps he did) the reviewer, whose name I will not drop (sic) here, plainly wished to let us know that the book was a series of them, a dull...
Published 17 months ago by Robert M. Sterry
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3.0 out of 5 stars
My introduction to Malcolm Bradbury,
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This review is from: Doctor Criminale (Paperback)
I was not tempted to write a review of Doctor Criminale until I read one dated 1992 in the Independent newspaper (UK) that thoroughly ripped it up and down shortly after the book was published. Without using the word cliche (or perhaps he did) the reviewer, whose name I will not drop (sic) here, plainly wished to let us know that the book was a series of them, a dull unnatractive work that insulted us all. Then I am insulted and gladly so. I read this around the same time as I read Kasuo Ishiguro's novel 'The Unconsoled'. The dreamlike chases and continual lack of resolution are similar in both works. I was also a fan of David Lodge and the unmerciful pillorying of acadamia. This book, along with those by Lodge and Ishiguro have made many trans-oceanic ordeals not a pleasure but tolerable. If you like language, frustration and mystery I say take this book with you on your next flight.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best academic comic novel,
This review is from: Doctor Criminale (Paperback)
Along with To the Hermitage, Bradbury's last ever novel, Doctor Criminale is a quintessential scholarly comedy that manages to engage literary themes from Borges to Derrida and back again without breaking a sweat or, worse still, appearing pretentious. In short, a thinking person's David Lodge and definitely worth (if the publisher should happen to read this) a reprint.
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Doctor Criminale by Malcolm Bradbury (Paperback - September 8, 2000)
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