Evelyn Waugh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780746308226)

Everyone knows how funny Evelyn Waugh is. One of his finest comic creations was his own increasingly rebarbative public persona - a self-confessed 'front of pomposity mitigated by indiscretion, that was as hard, bright and antiquated as a cuirass'. No wonder new biographies of Waugh are popular. The life and work cannot be separated. Gathered productively at the writer's desk are the chaotic and often bizarre details of Waugh's own life, what he called the 'adroit jigsaw' of his unobtrusively elegant aesthetic structures, and his moral coherence. This study shows how Waugh transformed his own experiences into painfully comic, brilliantly constructed novels. They are works, in his own words, of 'elegance and variety of contrivance'. Ann Pasternak Slater has written an ingenious and engaging study of the relationship between Waugh's life and work, between his sharp moral vision and Dionysiac comic genius. She focuses on Waugh's entire fictional oeuvre in a book notable for its intelligent sympathy.


Author: Ann Pasternak-Slater
ISBN-10: 0746308221
ISBN-13: 9780746308226
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2019
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d