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Plot synopsis. After winning a civil war against his late father Seyid (who is unfortunately eaten by his own soldiers), Seth, Oxford -educated emperor of the fictional nation of Azania, makes it his goal to modernise his country.
- Evelyn Waugh
- 1932
- 1932
- Comedy
Black Mischief, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1932. The book skewers attempts to impose European customs and beliefs upon so-called primitive peoples. The story is set in the fictional empire of Azania, an island off the coast of Africa.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief, published in 1932, recounts the unfortunate attempts of Seth, sovereign of the mythical East African Empire of Azania, to modernise his dominions.
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- 1932
- Evelyn Waugh
- Paperback
- Deep Crisis
- Violating Standards of Decency
- Types of Barbarity
When Waugh began writing Black Mischief in late 1931, England was in deep crisis. The 1929 financial crash and the Great Depression sparked political skirmishes over domestic and foreign economics. At the general election of October 27, Ramsay MacDonald’s National government was elected in a landslide. MacDonald had been prime minister of the minor...
Black Mischief was the Book Society choice for October 1932. The Book Societywas an interwar subscription book club established in 1929. Members were often from non-metropolian UK or English dominions, such as Australia, and used the Book Society to access new English books that were otherwise hard to get. The result was that Waugh’s novel did quit...
In his 1962 preface to the third UK edition, Waugh identified the primary theme of Black Mischief as “the conflict of civilisation, with all its attendant and deplorable ills, and barbarism”. As the phrase “attendant and deplorable” suggests, no European character or institution is set up as a positive model. Waugh the Tory-anarchistexposes the par...
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"Black Mischief" was Evelyn Waugh's third novel, published in 1932. The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to...
""Black Mischief, " Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the...
