Malcolm Bradbury
British novelist and critic whose The History Man is a celebrated satire of 1970s academic radicalism. He was also a significant literary critic and wrote the definitive study of the American social novel. He shaped British literary culture as critic and teacher for decades.
Works
- Eating People Is WrongComic novel set in a provincial university satirizing academic pretension
- The History ManNovel satirizing a manipulative leftist academic in 1960s university culture
- Stepping WestwardComic novel about an American academic visiting a struggling English university
- Rates of ExchangeNovel set in Eastern Europe about a language teacher navigating Cold War politics
- Doctor CriminaleNovel about a mysterious intellectual and criminal in postmodern narrative
- To the HermitageNovel inspired by Laurence Sterne tracing an intellectual's journey through Europe