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It certainly has gone down in my book as one of the best film adaptations of a classic novel, Catholic or otherwise, ever made: the 11-hour 1981 TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited succeeded largely due to it’s faithful, almost word-by-word script—perfect for the filming of a short novel told in the first person [...]
This week’s UK Catholic Herald has a lovely article by Milo Yiannopoulos on Evelyn Waugh’s little known and “underrated” historical novel, Helena, based on the life on St. Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine and the woman who is said to have discovered the True Cross on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Here’s [...]
reviewed by John Murphy How Fiction Works is a presuming title for a slim little book, made more conspicuous by a chapter called “A Brief History of Consciousness.” Oh, is that all? But the book’s author is James Wood, the New Yorker’s perspicacious literary critic, and his Preface quickly allays any fears of gassy pretension [...]
The Satirical Rogue Evelyn Waugh wrote Decline and Fall, his first book, at the age of twenty-five. Most young writers compare the giddy throes of that initial burst of creativity to a kind of drunkenness—young, brash, and brimming with authorial enthusiasm, they are intoxicated by the thrill of artistic discovery. Well, Evelyn Waugh was [...]
Gallows Humor One of my favorite stories about Evelyn Waugh finds him at a swank Parisian dinner party. After rudely belittling a helpless French intellectual with his characteristic boorishness, the host asked Evelyn how he could be so mean and still call himself a Catholic. “You have no idea,” Waugh answered, “how much nastier I [...]
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