David Lodge - Deaf Sentence
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Deaf Sentence is funny, all right, but it is funny in the way deafness itself is funny.... Here Lodge goes wider and further by creating a man who learns to be clear to the increasingly inaudible years of late lifeand not only to deal with death, but also to see and, despite his encroaching affliction, to hear.
Mordantly funny and poignant.
Terrific... Lodge manages to balance Desmonds amusing disquisitions on subjects like Wonderbra ads and hearing aids with somber reflections on mortality, a balancing act that few authors could pull off with such grace.
In Deaf Sentence, David Lodge moved beyond comic, satiric, and intellectual fiction to moral realism, teasing humor from the most unpromising subjectsdeafness, aging, suicide, death, and evolutionand finding tender insights into the human condition behind the irony of the crustiest curmudgeon.
Funny and touching... As readers of Lodges wonderful campus comedies of the 1980s and 90s know well, he is masterful on the subject of academic egos, the barely submerged competitiveness of so-called colleagues and the eager (sometimes reckless) sexual appetites of many men in the profession.... Throughout Deaf Sentence, Lodge layers his lively, comic scenes with the sobriety brought on by Desmonds thoughts on mortality. If this makes the novel sound heavy or laborious, its isnt: Lodge has always been able to wear his erudition and philosophical interests with deceptive lightness.
A touching and humane treatment of deafness, disability, and aging, at once sad and stoic and intermittently witty, and, as always with Lodge, it is readable and accessible, a fine addition to his oeuvre.
Rarely are we fortunate enough to find such witty, affecting, and ultimately transcendent treatments of the human slide toward oblivion as we do in [Deaf Sentence].... Glows with a sepia-toned, elegiac sadness that is occasionally leavened by bright comic interludes. Desmonds monologues are frank, funny, and captivating.Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Who knew deafness could be this funnythat it could be such a useful engine of comic haplessness? This engaging novel is full of information.
I liked Deaf Sentence very much. I dread losing my own hearing, which is more or less inevitable if you live long enough, and Mr. Lodges hero, Desmond Bates, is in denial. What Mr. Lodge does so well is simultaneously mock and lament his heros predicaments.Cynthia Crossen, The Wall Street Journal
An entertaining narrative, to which [Lodge] adds fascinating and instructive layers... The books triumph is to infuse all of this with appealing vitality, both through the witty verve of Lodges prose and this exhilaratingly sharp scrutiny of the world around him.
Terrific... You wouldnt think Lodge could make all of this funny, but somehow he does, with a wry wit that reveals the lighter side of Bates various dilemmas.Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
A novel as richly textured and thought-provoking as any Lodge has written... Probably no other work of fiction (and possibly no medical account) has described so successfully the multiplicity of confusions, frustrations and social stratagems deriving from deafness.
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