David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89

In the second book of the “Campus Trilogy,” “Small World” (1984), Morris Zapp, inspired by Stanley Fish, delivers a comic monologue on poststructuralist theory using a striptease metaphor, causing a young man in the audience to faint. The character of Zapp becomes so popular that Fish replaces his name on his office door, and the trilogy also includes the third novel, “Nice Work” (1988). Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess praise Lodge’s work, with John Banville highlighting his humor reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh and Henry Green.

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