The History Man

And some people found this threatening and wondered, what have we done with this expansion? But also universities are easy to mock as places of counterculture.

The emblematic early 70s novel, The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury.

So if Lucky Jim is the 50s campus novel, The History Man is the 70s campus novel because the academics embracing the counterculture are just ridiculous.

Yeah.

These privileged elite institutions playing at revolutionary politics are ridiculous.

Students barely feature in Lucky Jim.

It's a very small cast of characters.

In The History Man, the university is itself the ridiculous thing.

This is a literary tradition, right? And also to try to give the Western reader, the Spanish reader, that it's pretty difficult.

It makes me think about I really apologize if I get either the name or the author wrong, but this book that I think is called The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury, which is this 1970s British novel where he never gets into the Protagonist head at all.

He only reports what he said and did which I guess in European fiction probably is not as radical but like at the time that was really regarded as bringing the Nouveau Romain to English or whatever.

It was really it was really shocking to people but it sounds like he was doing it always kind of like Sino literary experiment and in fiction So and do you feel like You know, you've, yeah, you've spent, like you said, spent time in China, had a Chinese girlfriend, like taught Chinese students.