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11 de dic. de 2012 · Officers and Gentlemen is the second novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback (called "the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II" by the Atlantic Monthly ), which also comprises Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender. More ».
Officers and Gentlemen is the second novel in Waugh’s brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback (called “the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II” by the Atlantic Monthly), which also comprises Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender.
Officers and Gentlemen (1955) is the second volume of Evelyn Waugh’s Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour. It follows Men at Arms (1952) and precedes the concluding volume, Unconditional Surrender (1961). The novels can be read separately, but their significance is far greater when considered as a whole.
In Officers and Gentlemen, Evelyn Waugh employs irony and satire to critique the British class system and the values of honor and duty that underpin it. The novel follows the experiences of Guy Crouchback, a well-meaning but hapless man who joins the army during World War II in an attempt to prove his worth as a gentleman.
Sword of Honour combines three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender, which were originally published separately. Extensively revised by Waugh, they were published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read.
`Officers and Gentlemen' ends with Guy having come full circle when he arrives once more at the Halberdier barracks almost one year exactly after he left. The prose in `Officers and Gentlemen' is as excellent as one would expect from a Waugh novel, and one finds oneself unable to stop reading at some points in the story thanks to Waugh's ability to nurture the reader's interest.
Though I liked the first book a little better, and which I would categorize as one of the best comic novels I've read in a long time, Officers and Gentlemen has its strong points too. For one, it does a nice job of depicting the state of panic in the British mindset circa 1940 and 1941, with the frightening pattern of loss and retreat.
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