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Based on a true episode, this sharply comic novel, and Waugh's own biography are entangled in a richly fascinating way. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold--A Conversation Piece recounts a period of mental confusion and breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. Prone to moments of paranoia and memory-loss, he attempts to cure himself by going on a cruise to the tropics. But an active imagination means peace of mind becomes an increasingly illusory destination.… (plus d'informations)
Lacks the hilarity of Waugh's other dark comedies, and is repetitive and predictable across large sections. However it retains some interest for historical and psychological reasons. As it is at least semi-autobiographical we get some insight into Waugh's own later life, and his period of mental breakdown. His delusions and paranoia provide the main stock of humour here, though this mainly falls flat. Not a classic. ( )
This is a very different sort of book from Waugh's others. The most familiar elements are the unrelenting bits of racism and his usual mode of satire. The fact that it's based on real aspects of his life makes it somewhat terrifying, but the execution was great. How he knew and didn't know they were just voices, how he kept rationalizing things and how contradictions weren't a big issue. The back of my book contained a few short stories which I didn't have time to read, but which I intend to get to. ( )
[T]he first part of [the novel] is first-rate. Its "portrait of the artist in middle age," before he sets forth on his tedious journey, is a genuine gothic horror, a gargoyle to terrify anyone who has ever contemplated a literary career. Mr. Pinfold is publicly successful; he is so prosperous that he does not write as much as he could, because the tax-gatherer would only take his earnings away from him; but privately he is in such advanced decay that even the most long-standing habits of self-congratulation have failed. The acid bath so often prepared for others has now found its way into his own tub.
This [Penguin ed.] is a terrific edition of a mildly neglected classic. It is an uncomfortable book: not only is it the most faithfully autobiographical of Waugh's novels, it is about Waugh's own period of madness.
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To DAPHNE in the confidence that her abounding sympathy will extend even to poor Pinfold
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It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.
Pode acontecer que nos próximos cem anos os romancistas ingleses venham a ser julgados da mesma maneira como hoje julgamos os artistas do século XVIII.
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Angel (jornalista) parecia acreditar que alguém, suficientemente importante para ser entrevistado por ele, tinha que ter algo que esconder, tinha de ser um impostor, que ele devia, por ofício e obrigação, tentar desmascarar, baseando as suas perguntas num conhecimento prévio de qualquer coisa de vergonhoso.
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Guardou novamente o manuscrito no fundo da gaveta, foi buscar um bloco de papel novo, pô-lo à sua frente e começou a escrever com letra firme e clara: As desventuras de Gilbert Pinfold, Novela, Primeiro capítulo, Retrato do artista aos cinquenta anos.
Based on a true episode, this sharply comic novel, and Waugh's own biography are entangled in a richly fascinating way. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold--A Conversation Piece recounts a period of mental confusion and breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years. Prone to moments of paranoia and memory-loss, he attempts to cure himself by going on a cruise to the tropics. But an active imagination means peace of mind becomes an increasingly illusory destination.
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