More than quite a good memoir from lucid Lodge

Quite a Good Time to be Born A Memoir 1935-1975: By David Lodge Harvill Secker, €16.35 One of David Lodge’s claims to fame is that he invented a literary parlour game called ‘Humiliation’. Players are required to embarrass themselves by naming a clas

David Lodge: an honest self-portrait from a timid, anxious intellectual.

In the author’s own novelChanging Places, an English lecturer wins by choosing Hamlet, but finds that his academic reputation is ruined forever.

Lodge himself must find ‘Humiliation’ quite a challenge. As ...