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Chargement... The Diaries of Evelyn Waughpar Evelyn Waugh
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Reread Vile Bodies recently, apropos of an interest in the Bright Young Things phenomenon, and found it so mean-spirited that I abandoned plan to reread rest of Waugh’s fiction. But I did pick up his diary and read it in sections, interspersed with his travel books, and found this a more rewarding experience. Waugh reveals himself as a bit of a shit, undeniably, and an alcoholic from early on, but with a vulnerable side which is not unattractive. And a lifelong dedication to his literary vocation. Certainly the diaries should be a must-read for fans of Waugh’s novels, but they have independent interest as a “portrait of the artist” and of course the literary and social circle in which he moved.
He constructed for himself a coherent and highly rational world with clear religious, political and esthetic laws. It was a narrow, even a bigoted construction but, like Waugh's prose, it was a constant and authoritative reproach to the venality and disorder of his contemporaries, or of all but a tiny remnant--his honorable, amusing or wicked friends. The diaries are architect's notes on the construction and maintenance of this world; that was their value to Waugh. We have the novels, and so need them less. Contient
Evelyn Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 1966, and extracts from the diaries caused sensation when they were published by in The Observer. Providing the background to the novels which made Waugh famous, these diaries are a sharp and baleful view of the social history of our times. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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