Thérapie (edition 1995)

by David Lodge

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A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment . . .… (more)

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A TV writer reflects on his marriage and other significant relationships throughout his life. He ultimately reconnects with his first love and finds meaning. (

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ghefferon | Aug 15, 2023 |

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dmspdlf | Oct 22, 2022 |

Not just a good novel, this was also the most enjoyable introduction to the thought of Søren Kierkegaard that I ever hope to read.

Muscogulus | Mar 1, 2013 |

Un scénariste dans la cinquantaine avancée souffre d'un mystérieux mal au genou que ni la médecine officielle ni les médecines douces ne parviennent à soulager. Il devient obsédé par son mal au point de mettre en danger sa vie privée et professionnelle. Sous l'égide de Kierkegaard, un roman qui aborde avec un humour décapant les problèmes du vieillissement chez l'homme et la crise existentielle qui en résulte. Malgré quelques longueurs - surtout dans la première partie - un bon roman qui reprend, en les approfondissant, les obsessions familières aux personnages de Lodge.

PierreYvesMERCIER | Feb 19, 2012 |

An amusing book, but no real hearty laughs like 'Deaf Sentence' the previous one I'd read by the same author. At one point I got a little lost as to what was happening, but caught up a little alter. The final part was interesting, and clearly the reason I had been gifted the book in the first place! (No spoilers here!) (

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Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Winner – Best Book, South Asia and Europe – 1996)

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist – 1997)

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1995 (Martin Secker & Warburg)

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Laurence Passmore

Sally Passmore

Maureen Kavanagh

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Therapy. The treatment of physical,
mental or social disorders or disease.

-- Collins English Dictionary

"You know what, Søren? There's
nothing the matter with you but
your silly habit of holding yourself
round-shouldered. Just straighten
your back and stand up and your
sickness will be over."
-- Christian Lund,
uncle of Søren Kierkegaard

"Writing is a form of therapy."

-- Graham Greene

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To Dad, with love

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RIGHT, here goes.

Monday morning, 15th Feb., 1993. A mild February day has brought the squirrels out of hibernation.

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Repetition ... in another sense is the enjoyment of what you have. It’s the same as living-in-the-present, ‘it has the blessed certainty of the instant’. It means being set free from the curse of unhappy hoping and unhappy remembering. ‘Hope is a charming maiden that slips through the fingers, recollection is a beautiful old woman but of no use at the instant, repetition is a beloved wife of whom one never tires’ (Kierkegaard, Repetition).

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A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment . . .

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