![]() ![]() Waugh explored all the possible uses to which the private joke can be put in fiction and in life. Waugh fitted naturally into this coterie, and he was to immortalize the particular house of Madresfield as Brideshead, and its owner Lord Beauchamp as Lord Marchmain. So equipped, the talented young with ideas for a masterpiece in their heads were able to meet the right people in the right houses. A white tie and a tailcoat were as much tools of the trade as a typewriter. Literature, for those who embarked on writing careers in the 1920s, was often more a means to enter society than a genuine vocation. ![]() Joyboy and Aimée Thanatogenos, and Apthorpe command their place in the British psyche along with Mr. 1 Indeed, Captain Grimes, the Emperor Seth of Azania, Basil Seal, Mr. A reissue of his fiction by Little, Brown and Company attests to the lasting nature of his works. Almost fifty years after his death, Waugh remains a presence because the spirit of comedy in his books is pure and irrepressible. About the best that most writers can expect from posterity is cultural embalming, probably in the form of a monograph written by some academic paid to read books nobody else is reading. Portrait of Evelyn Waugh from December 1940Įvelyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a special stamp on the times, like Dean Swift or Dr. ![]()
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