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Hace 1 día · When writer Evelyn Waugh arrived in Georgetown, British Guyana, he was probably in need of a break. The journey overland had been exhausting, and the recently divorced writer was probably still languishing in the throes of unrequited love for socialite Teresa Jungman. This 700-mile psychomachia in the Amazonian rainforest would go on to inspire A Handful of Dust,
Hace 5 días · Several far-better known and experienced reviewers than I have written on Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor Trilogy, noting the resemblance of its major romantic sub-plot to the prophet Hosea while at the same time generally consigning the majority of the military misadventures, the bulk of the story, to the waste bin as, at most, an amusing distraction from the Hosea plot and, at worst, a ...
Hace 3 días · Whose death, when it came — on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, soon after returning home from morning Mass, celebrated by his great friend, Jesuit Father Philip Caraman, in the liturgical language he loved best, i.e., Latin — could scarcely have been happier.
Hace 1 día · –An academic article on Waugh’s first novel has appeared in the Journal of European Studies (v. 54, no. 2). This is by Wukai Lin and Taohua Wang (both of Sun Yat-sen University in China) and is entitled: “‘Fruitless circularity’ or moral growth ?: Re-interpreting the circular mobility in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.”
Hace 22 horas · Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), falecido há meio século, é um deles. Difícil falar de Waugh com um mínimo de objetividade: continua a ser a maior influência estilística da minha vida e, entre as obras do senhor, são as novelas cômicas –"Decline and Fall", "Vile Bodies"– que levaria para a famosa ilha deserta, com a qual sonho dia e noite.
Hace 2 días · Evelyn Waugh. Professor Joseph Pearce discusses the intricacies of Evelyn Waugh’s renowned novel, Brideshead Revisited, exploring its themes of divine grace and societal decadence. Through his intuitive analysis, Pearce sheds light on Waugh’s profound exploration of faith, conversion, and the complexities of human relationships in a ...
Hace 22 horas · It’s disappointing to return to them and find that many don’t hold up in the light of my new, post-deconstruction perspectives. Yes, I could, in theory, skip over some polite racism in the novels of Evelyn Waugh or ignore the threads of homophobia in the stories of C. S. Lewis—because those bigotries don’t directly affect me.
