Evelyn Waugh: a life revisited
Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look at this famously complex character and tells the full story of his dramatic, colourful and frequently bizarre life: his strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother, and the burning ambition they provoked in him; his formative homosexual love affairs at Oxford; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his unrequited love for the brightest of the bright young people; his complex interest in the aristocracy and what the aristocrats made of him; his insane bravery yet chequered wartime career; his drug-induced madness; his strangely successful second marriage; his unconventional attitude to his six children; his sharp tongue; his devastating wit; the love, fear and loathing that he variously inspired. Scrupulously researched and sympathetically written, this is a sparkling and compelling new biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century - and one of England's most mythologised eccentrics |
| Beschreibung: | xxvi, 403 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, genealogische Tafel, Portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780297609483 0297609483 9780297869207 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Family Tree XV
Preface xxi
1 Second Son 1
2 The Sadism of Youth 15
3 Serving Lord Kitchener 30
4 A Lesser Place than Eton 40
5 Watertight Compartments 53
6 All That One Dreams 66
7 His Poor Dead Heart 80
8 Pure as Driven Slush 90
9 Becoming a Man of Letters 103
10 Shevelyn 114
li A Common Experience, I’m Told 125
12 Perversion to Rome 140
13 The Dutch Girl 150
14 Off to the Forest 170
15 I Can’t Advise You in My Favour 184
16 Goodness She is a Decent Girl 200
17 A War to End Waugh 215
18 Head Unbloodied but Bowed 238
19 A Book to Bring Tears 252
20 The Occupation 267
EVELYN WAUGH
21 Off My Rocker 288
22 Suitably Sequestered 302
23 Decline and Fall 319
Epilogue 333
Notes 337
Select Bibliography 375
Index 383
EVELYN WAUGH was described by
Graham Greene as ‘the greatest novelist
o£ my generation’, yet reckoned by Hilaire
Belloc to have been possessed by the devil.
Waugh’s literary reputation has continued
to rise since Greene’s assessment in 1966.
Fifty years on from his death, acclaimed
biographer Philip Fade takes a fresh look
at this famously complex character and tells
the full story of his dramatic, colourful and
frequently bizarre life.
Written with the help of the Waugh family
and drawing on numerous unpublished letters,
diaries and memoirs, the book sheds new
light on Waugh’s strained relationship with
his sentimental father and blatantly favoured
elder brother, and the burning ambition they
provoked in him; his formative homosexual
love affairs at Oxford; his disastrous first
marriage and subsequent conversion to
Roman Catholicism; his unrequited love for
the brightest of the bright young people;
his complex interest in the aristocracy and
what the aristocrats made of him; his insane
bravery yet chequered wartime career; his
drug-induced madness; his strangely successful
second marriage; his unconventional attitude
to hissix children; his sharp tongue; his
devastating wit; the love, fear and loathing
that he variously inspired.
Scrupulously researched and sympathetically
written, this is a sparkling and compelling new
biography of one of the greatest writers of the
twentieth century — and one of England’s most
mythologised eccentrics.
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