Evelyn Waugh
- Waugh in Abyssinia (1936), a journalistic account of the war and what led up to it
- A Little Learning (1964)
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Biographies of Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour by Frances Donaldson, 1967.
- Evelyn Waugh by Christopher Sykes, 1975.
- Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903 – 1939 by Martin Stannard, 1987.
- Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939 – 1966 by Martin Stannard, 1994.
- Evelyn Waugh: a Biography by Selina Hastings, 1994.
- The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography by Douglas Lane Patey, 1998.
- Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh, 2007.
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Critical reception and legacy
In 1944, American literary critic Edmund Wilson pronounced Waugh "the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw,"[8] while Time magazine declared, in a 1966 obituary, that he had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world."[9] Waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired by critics as a humorist and prose stylist. In his notes for an unpublished review of Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions."[10] The American conservative commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. found in Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century,"[11] while his liberal counterpart Gore Vidal called him "our time's first satirist."[12] Even the "overt racism" of his African writings has been forgiven by Ethiopian luminaries because his humour, satire, cruelty and wit were spread even-handedly, attacking the foibles of his own country at least as vigorously as those of foreigners.[13]
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Cultural references
- 'Evelyn Waugh' is used as a pseudonym for an American actress staying at a hotel in Tokyo in the film Lost in Translation, 2003. (Kelly (Anna Faris): "I'm under Evelyn Waugh." Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson): "Evelyn Waugh was a man.")
- In one episode of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis, Pig is writing a love letter to an authoress who has captivated him. In the last panel, a letter beginning "Dear Evelyn Waugh" is shown.
- Whether either of the writers involved were aware that a London reviewer of Waugh's first book Dante Gabriel Rossetti had described him as "Miss Waugh" throughout his review[citation needed] is uncertain.
- In Alan Bennett's play, Kafka's Dick, Kafka's father looks at the bookcase and says "Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh. I bet she knew how to treat a man!"
- In Kingsley Amis' novel, Lucky Jim, one of Jim's "faces" is the Evelyn Waugh face.
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References
- ^ http://www.heathmount.org
- ^ The Waughs: Fathers and Sons in BBC Four Documentaries online (accessed 22 March 2008)
- ^ Auberon Waugh, Will this do?, p206 Century/random house, London 1991
- ^ WAUGH, Evelyn Arthur St John in Who Was Who 1897–2006 online (accessed 10 January 2008)
- ^ "It's the best written; the most interesting theme." Evelyn Waugh, appearing on the BBC television "Face to Face" interview with John Freeman, 18 June 1960
- ^ "Evelyn Waugh in his own Words - Waugh’s interview with Elizabeth Jane Howard", Partial transcript of the Monitor programme 1964.
- ^ Mark Brown "Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years", The Guardian, 15 April 2008. Retrieved on 15 April 2008.
- ^ " 'Never Apologize, Never Explain', The Art of Evelyn Waugh," The New Yorker, 4 March 1944, reprinted in Classics and Commercials, A Literary Chronicle of the Forties, by Edmund Wilson, page 140, Vintage Books, New York, 1962
- ^ Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966): The Beauty of his Malice, obituary in Time, Apr. 22, 1966
- ^ Quoted in Christopher Hitchens, "The Permanent Adolescent," The Atlantic Monthly, May 2003
- ^ "Evelyn Waugh, R.I.P.", National Review, May 3, 1966 [1]
- ^ "Evelyn Waugh," New York Times Book Review, 7 January 1962, reprinted in Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal, pages 235-243, Little Brown, Boston, 1962
- ^ [2] BBC World Service "Anniversary Waugh of words" 23 April 2003
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External links
- An Evelyn Waugh Web Site by David Cliffe
- Doubting Hall — A guided tour around the works of Evelyn Waugh
- Sponge Cakes with Gooseberry Fool: Evelyn Waugh was Odd
- Bibliography
- BBC TV 2006 Documentary and clips
- The life and death of Evelyn Waugh @ Ward's Book of Days
- Evelyn Waugh at the Internet Movie Database
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