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Study of the works of Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966, English author. ... Read more

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Arguing that Waugh's comedy should be viewed as a way of challenging seriousness rather than a covert way of purveying it, this new examination of the relationship between Waugh's life and work examines the elements of escapism in his art and gauges their limit. Littlewood examines the texture of the novels, surveying such modes of response as humor, romanticism, nostalgia and religion in order to describe the precarious balance between Waugh's real and imaginative life. ... Read more

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Title: Evelyn Waugh: A Biography.
Author: Robert Murray Davis
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v69Issue: n4Page: p804(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Focusing on the writing of Evelyn Waugh from a uniquely journalistic perspective, this book concentrates primarily on his classic "Scoop". It features his writings concerning the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-36) while he was a correspondent for London's "Daily Mail". ... Read more

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For Waugh fans
It's well written with many illuminating insights but is a scholarly work aimed, I suppose, at people who have read, or thought they had read, all of Waugh. Actually,for those who wept that there were no more Waughs to conquer,he uncovers some obscure writings and some differences between editions that are more radical and more interesting than such textual variants usually are.
Only the first section and the bits about the early novels live up to the promise of the title by relating Waugh to contemporary writers of his time. I had always been puzzled by the way that in "Decline and Fall" a taut, ironic, detached, witty style emerged suddenly in 1928 from the unreadable tomes of the early century when humor was arch and ponderous, description long-winded, and plots melodramatic. Genius is the primary explanation of course but Davis puts it into context and I shall be scouring the used book areas for some of the avatars and exemplars he mentions.
Later on he loses track of this theme of relating Waugh to his contemporaries. Just every now and then he reminds us that that is what he is supposed to be doing. There is a discussion of "Brideshead Revisited" in relation to "All the King's Men." Warren did not read Waugh and Waugh did not read Warren. At the outset Davis says "any thread of external evidence linking them is rather tenuous"Well - yes. ... Read more

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In this volume of essays casting new light on aspects of Waugh's life and writings, the essential Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and a sensitive recorder not only of the Roaring Twenties but also of his century. Evelyn Waugh's undisputed talent and controversial personality are set off in a series of studies that provide new elements towards the understanding of the man and the artist: the annulment of his first marriage, his relations with the BBC are for the first time dealt with in depth and objectivity. ... Read more