Doctor Criminale

Malcolm Bradbury

Doctor Criminale

‘Eminently readable . . . perceptive and poignant’ Time Out

Francis Jay is a man of the ’90s. 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, Doctor Criminale shows a world where old ideologies are coming apart at the seams. 

A fundraising event to celebrate the reissue of Malcolm Bradbury's novels and support the work of the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust in providing scholarships for UEA creative writing students.

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Malcolm Bradbury, British novelist, critic and academic, was best known for his satirical portrayals of the university life he was so familiar with. A dedicated advocate for the appreciation of literature in wider society, Bradbury co-founded the first Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia. 

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Picador reissues the work of one of the finest authors of the 20th century. 

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Warm and generous, famous and friendly, witty and wise: Dominic Bradbury on his father's life and work.