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Malcolm Bradbury was a well-known novelist, critic and academic, and founder of the creative writing department at the University of East Anglia. He was the author of seven novels, including The History Man and Rates of Exchange, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 and died the same year.‘Eminently readable . . . perceptive and poignant’ <i>Time Out</i>
'Playful, smart and entertaining.' <i>New York Times Book Review</i>
A playful, smart and entertaining work of art with deadly serious underpinnings
New York Times
‘Eminently readable . . . perceptive and poignant’ Time Out
Francis Jay is a man of the nineties. Street-wise but eco-friendly, smart yet charmingly naive, when his journalism career falls on the rocks he sets out to salvage it by embarking on a quest to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the modern age for a TV documentary. The myth of Doctor Bazlo Criminale proves almost impossible to penetrate, but Jay doggedly pursues the doctor from congress to congress, from woman to woman and from muse to muse: just who is the mysterious Criminale?
Written after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Malcolm Bradbury's Doctor Criminale shows a world where old ideologies are coming apart at the seams.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.