Word: robyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beauty of Nice Work is that abstract literary concepts take on a real meaning in determining the lives and outlooks of the characters. Vic, for example, sees the feelings he develops for Robyn as "love," while Robyn says that love is "a rhetorical device," a "bourgeois fallacy" and a "literary conjob." It's just another word used to exploit people...
Lodge sets up a neat tension in the novel between the analytical literary world of Robyn, who doesn't believe that anything exists beyond text, and the bottom-line-conscious world of Vic, where only real things matter...
...Lodge is not above taking himself apart in the same way from time to time. As he flits between styles, voices and tenses, Lodge constantly points out the deficiencies of the novel while steadfastly sticking to its conceits. Introducing Robyn, he describes...
...very different character. A character who, rather awkwardly for me, doesn't herself believe in the concept of character. That is to say (a favorite phrase of her own) Robyn Penrose, Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Rummidge, holds that "character" is a bourgeois myth, an illusion created to reinforce the ideology of capitalism...
Industry is finding it ever harder to compete with Europe and the Far West. And without anything real to support it, the university system is falling apart from lack of funds--Robyn can't even get a permanent...