Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000)
Author of The History Man
About the Author
A professor of English literature and American studies who has published numerous critical works, Malcolm Bradbury is also a novelist whose protagonists are academics who make muddles of their personal and professional lives. He maintains that his main concern is to explore problems and dilemmas of show more liberalism and issues of moral responsibility. The targets of Bradbury's satires include intellectual pretension, cultural myopia, and official smugness. His protagonists are largely sympathetic, if comic, failures at mastering their own fates in a world of absurd rules and regulations. His major novels include Eating People Is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), and The History Man (1975). This last, a novel of intellectual and political conflict at an English university in the late 1960s, was made into a successful television minidrama. More recent novels include Rates of Exchange (1983) and Cuts (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist, & satirist. His many books include "Rates of Exchange", which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, & "The Modern American Novel". (Publisher Provided) show less
Works by Malcolm Bradbury
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (Penguin Literary Criticism) (1976) — Editor — 347 copies
New Writing {sets} 3 copies
The American novel and the nineteen twenties (Stratford-upon-Avon studies) (1971) — Editor — 2 copies
The Expatriate Tradition in American Literature (British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Pamphlets) (1982) 1 copy
Furling the Flag, Part 1 1 copy
Furling the Flag, Part 2 1 copy
The Collected Works Volume One: Rates of Exchange, The History Man, and Stepping Westward (2018) 1 copy
The Collected Works Volume Two: Cuts, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go, and Doctor Criminale (2018) 1 copy
Composition 1 copy
Associated Works
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry (2001) — Contributor — 249 copies
Scenes from Provincial Life and Scenes from Metropolitan Life (1950) — Introduction, some editions — 48 copies
Great Interviews of the 20th Century: F Scott Fitzgerald by Michel Mok (2007) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Legal name
- Bradbury, Sir Malcolm Stanley
- Birthdate
- 1932-09-07
- Date of death
- 2000-11-27
- Burial location
- St Mary's parish churchyard, Tasburgh, Norfolk, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Indiana, USA - Education
- University College, Leicester (BA|1953)
Queen Mary College, University of London (MA|1955)
University of Manchester (Ph.D|1962)
West Bridgford Grammar School - Occupations
- novelist
critic
academic
journalist
screenwriter
professor - Organizations
- University of Birmingham
University of East Anglia - Awards and honors
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (1991)
Knight Bachelor (2000)
Pipe Smoker of the Year (1997) - Agent
- Curtis Brown
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Booker Prize (1)
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Statistics
- Works
- 62
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 5,231
- Popularity
- #4,768
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 42
- ISBNs
- 271
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
- 14
I found this to be a very strong collection, with absolutely no weak points, and some real gems. Each short story was at least fine, but some were simply outstanding:
Samuel Beckett: Ping - I have a soft spot for the nonsense which of course does have sense and such a strong rhythm in all its minimalism that it is positively enjoyable
Dylan Thomas: The Burning Baby - nightmarish as its title, intense and skilful, with all due respect, trying to purge my memory of it
Ted Hughes: The Rain Horse - a tad less nightmarish but still very much in that territory, also very intense and skilful
Salman Rushdie: The Prophet's Hair - this is where I had to pause to acknowledge how certain authors produced works that were not better but on a completely different level of quality than others, and those others were also very good. (for me, authors of this different quality include Auster, Nabokov, Esterházy) I intend to use this in ESL lessons as I did with the following one.
Kazuo Ishiguro: A Family Supper
I really appreciate the following as well:
Graham Greene: The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen - another one up for ESL lessons
William Golding: Miss Pulkinhorn
Alan Sillitoe: The Fishing-boat Picture
Doris Lessing: To Room Nineteen
Muriel Spark: The House of the Famous Poet
John Fowles: The Enigma - started as a detective story but turned out to be something even better
Malcolm Bradbury: Composition - with its 3 different endings
Beryl Bainbridge: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie - very powerful
Ian McEwan: Psychopolis -
Julian Barnes: One of a Kind
Clive Sinclair: Bedbugs… (more)