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DescriptionMalcolm Bradbury - Eating People is Wrong  "Eating People Is Wrong" is a social satire set in academe among the faculty and students of a provincial university in 1950s England. Malcolm Bradbury, who would later become a professor of literature like his protagonist Stuart Treece, took nearly a decade to write the novel, beginning when he was a student and finishing it as a professor. This makes his insight all the more remarkable, since Bradbury's understanding of faculty politics and middle age was limited when he started the book. Perhaps that is why his observations of students and student-faculty parties are so keen. The result is insightful, literate, and hilarious, with an uncommon sympathy amid the candor. Stuart Treece is a professor of English literature, come to the provinces to bestow beneficent guidance on his working class students so that they might advance themselves through merit. He is an idealist, a liberal humanist formed in the 1930s, now pushing middle age in the 1950s and unsure where a person of his ideals fits in these days. There doesn't seem to be a lot to actually do to actively advance his values. He tries to help his more eccentric students -an African man, the son of a chief, who's having trouble adjusting, and Louis Bates, an unstable but brilliant writer who struggles fiercely with social ineptitude. And Treece has an eye on Emma Fielding, a graduate student of like mind who is always pursued, always rejecting men, and always feels terribly guilty about it. Publisher: Chicago Review Press; Reprint edition (August 30, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0897331893 ISBN-13: 9780897331890 Sharing Widget |
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