Rates of Exchange (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Malcolm Bradbury
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Parody
- Time of Work: 1981
- Setting: Eastern Europe
- Principal Characters: Angus Petworth, Marisja Lubijova, Katya Princip, Lottie, Professor Plitplov, Steadiman
- Genres: Long fiction, Parody
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Politics, Socialism, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Linguistics or linguists, Writing, 1980’s, Capitalism, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: Europe
The Novel
Angus Petworth arrives in the city of Slaka, the capital of the novel’s anonymous and imaginary Eastern European country, to deliver a series of lectures on linguistics for the British Council. In going from London to Slaka, however, Petworth has traveled more than a merely geographical distance. He has also gone from a capitalist to a Socialist society, from the known to the unfamiliar, from domestic limitations to amorous possibilities, and from realism to fabulation. Although ostensibly in the country “to perform utterance,” Petworth is nevertheless also in...
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