Malcolm Bradbury
Malcom Stanley Bradbury (1932 - 2002??) was born in Sheffield. He became Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia and acquired a reputation for critical works.
"His first three novels are satirical Campus novels, though with widely differing backgrounds; Eating People Is Wrong (1959) relates the amorous and pedagogic adventures of ageing liberal humanist Professor Treece in a second-rate redbrick provincial university; Stepping Westward (1965) is set in the mid-west of America; and The History Man (1975) is set in the new plate-glass university of Watermough, where the ambivalent figure of the ambitious Dr Howard Kirk manipulates wife, colleagues, students, lovers, and academic politics with a fine sense of the historical moment. Rates of Exchange (1983) takes academic linguist Dr Petworth on a British Council lecture tour to an Eastern European country where there is no British Council; the novel's imagery and plot spring from Structuralist concepts of culture, and it is a witty and satiric commentary on cultural exchange. Cuts: A Very Short Novel (1987) is a satire on Thatcherite Britain. Dr Criminale (1992) tells the story of a journalist's search for one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th cent., the mysterious Dr Bazlo Criminale." (Oxford Companion to English Literature, p. 126-7)
Dr Criminale
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