Malcolm Bradbury Summary

Malcolm Bradbury is part of a new breed of British academic who is as seriously involved in novel writing as he is in literary criticism and theory. His university teaching seems to reinforce his writ... Read more

Critical Essay by C. P. Snow I am very interested in how this book ["Eating People Is Wrong"] goes down in the United States. For several reasons, I am sure the author is one of the mos... Read more

Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury The History Man is a novel about dehumanization; behind the book is a strong visual analogy, of a flat, hostile landscape, not our good old friend, of multi-storey ... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Amis It is not every year that Malcolm Bradbury writes a novel. It is every decade that Malcolm Bradbury writes a novel. Already he has called 'Rates of Exchange... Read more

Critical Essay by Francis King What is best in [Rates of Exchange] is not the plot, which is essentially thin, nor the characters, who are essentially stereotypes derived from other Iron Curtain nove... Read more

Critical Essay by David Montrose A critical record, in a mere 186 pages, 'of the achievement of American fiction since the turning-point of the 1890s', Malcolm Bradbury's [The Mo... Read more

Critical Essay by Rachel Billington Malcolm Bradbury, the author of "Rates of Exchange," has always been concerned with defining the value of language. He once wrote that the novel �... Read more

Critical Essay by The New Yorker ["Eating People Is Wrong"] is full of jokes and witticisms of almost every description, but there are no funny situations, and the few comic episodes th... Read more

Critical Essay by A. S. Byatt [The Social Context of Modern English Literature] treats literature as a social product: it occupies "a middle ground between literary study, sociology and intell... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Drabble The hero, if so he could be called, of "The History Man" is a predatory, unprincipled and ruthlessly fashionable sociologist, Dr. Kirk…. The de... Read more

Critical Essay by Nick Totton It must be … self-admiration that leads Malcolm Bradbury to fill a third of Who Do You Think You Are? with poor and loutish parodies of other writers, many of who... Read more