Stylization in the novel the British museum is falling down by David Lodge

The article considers the novel The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge. The novel is divided into ten chapters, which each of them is a parody on the style of famous British and American writers of the XIX-XXth centuries. The article deals with the analysis of the second, the fourth and the seventh chapters and the epilogue, representing the parody on the styles of Virginia Woolf, Charles Percy Snow, Henry James and James Joyce. Stylization is linked to narrative dominance of the world-view of the hero who is also a literary critic. The author's choice of stylization enabled him to create a composition structure based on variety of elements, points of view and ways of presentation of events, often connected with the ironic comparison of the previous literary tradition and the modern reality. The novel under analysis is considered in the context of realization of the so-called 'game' principle of literary work characteristic for metafiction and postmodern literature in general.