AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE: LODGE’S CHANGING PLACES
AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE: LODGE’S CHANGING PLACES

Summary/Abstract: David Lodge‘s Changing Places is read both in the new tradition of the campus novel, with its title, A Tale of Two Cities, reminiscent of Dickens‘s towering influence as a great comic author. Lodge can also be included in the dialogic, polyphonic tradition, his novels creating special effects by the use of a plurality of voices and perspectives. This article focuses on one particular perspective, associated with one of the novel‘s two protagonists, an Englishman seeing an American campus at the height of the countercultural age. The comic vision of the main figures, events and key issues is doubled by a close, documentary, although indirect engagement with real events and people of that time, mainly due to the fact that Lodge himself witnessed it all.

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