'What does David Lodge do to literature and how does he do it? And what ways does he use to do what he does?' These are the two main questions that represent the starting point of my dissertation which looks into literature in general and in several of David Lodge's works in particular, not only as phenomena of reception but, particularly, as acts of production and mediation on the literary markets that are fashioned in today's postmodern society of consumption. In so doing, questions are raise ...