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The Picturegoers

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The Picturegoers
First edition
AuthorDavid Lodge
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacGibbon & Kee
Publication date
1960
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover, paperback)

The Picturegoers (1960) is the first novel by British writer David Lodge.

The novel relates the story of a group of Roman Catholics residing in London.[1] It interweaves scenes at and near Brickley Palladium in south-east London with characters like Mark Underwood, a Catholic undergraduate, and Clare representing different attitudes to religion. The novel delves into their relationship of Mark and Clare and the tension that starts to redefine their personalities.[2] Movies are used as a touchstone for exploring Catholic values in a changing world, where the cinema introduces values and behaviors from the greater society that differ from those of the traditional community. Various characters are portrayed, representing, to a certain extent, common types of people in a small earlyish twentieth-century British London neighborhood, though the focus is on one lower-middle-class family.

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References

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  1. ^ "The Picturegoers | novel by Lodge | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ "BOOK REVIEW / If only you had faith: The Picturegoers - David Lodge:". The Independent. 28 May 1993. Retrieved 21 March 2024.