February 2012
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“He wrote about his travels to earn money so he could travel some more.”
– Orville Prescott, on Evelyn Waugh
this man increasingly becomes more and more my hero with every word I read.
(via love-or-what-you-will)
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“Cliché hunting is a cruel and mischievous hobby—the badger digging of the...”
– Evelyn Waugh, in The Tablet (3 December 1938)
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“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via misswallflower)
Not Evelyn Waugh. I repeat: not Evelyn Waugh. The 2008 ‘Brideshead’ movie, yes, but not Evelyn Waugh.
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“It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via penrose-stairs)
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Evelyn Waugh Society
The Evelyn Waugh Society has 128 members. To join, please visit http://evelynwaughsociety.org. The Evelyn Waugh Discussion List has 90 members. To join, please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh. The Evelyn Waugh Society is also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/evelynwaughsoc. The Waugh Society is providing RSS feed: http://evelynwaughsociety.org/feed. And the Waugh Society’s web...
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The Quest for Alastair Graham
In “Nobody turns up,” published in The Spectator for 17 September 2011, Byron Rogers reviews How to Disappear by Duncan Fallowell. The book is partly about Fallowell’s quest to find Alastair Graham, the reclusive friend of Evelyn Waugh.
How to Disappear was also reviewed, along with the new Penguin edition of Waugh’s Labels, in “How to write about travel” by Toby Lichtig, published in the Times...
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Hat Sale
Leicester Galleries recently sold a painting attributed to Bruno Hat, Still Life with Pears (1929), for £18,750. Hat was supposed to be a German artist, but the exhibition was a hoax. Evelyn Waugh wrote the introduction to the catalogue, “Approach to Hat.” The text appears on the web site of the Leicester Galleries, along with an image of the painting and an explanation of the hoax.
-Evelyn...
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Brideshead Revisited and The Double Helix, by... →
In a recent interview, James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, noted the literary influences on his memoir The Double Helix: “Watson said he had modeled the book’s tone on fiction—primarily Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (which inspired Watson’s original title for The Double Helix—”Honest Jim”), and F. Scott...
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"Art Criticism and Brideshead Revisited", by Elyse... →
EVELYN WAUGH STUDIES Vol. 42, No. 2 Autumn 2011
Evelyn Waugh’s first literary vocation was not novelist but art critic.
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In Brideshead Revisited, Waugh utilizes the Aesthetic tradition of art-for-art’s sake, which mistakes art for life and significant form for significance, as an ironic lens that shows how younger characters, far from inhabiting a golden age, perch on a bubble ready...
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“It is time to speak of Julia.”
– The opening of the second half of Brideshead Revisited. It says nothing on the first read and carries so much weight in hindsight. (via kythryn)
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Correspondence with Olivia Plunket Greene
Evelyn Waugh was attracted to Olivia Plunket Greene in the 1920s, as described in A Little Learning. She died on 11 November 1958. The next day, 12 November, her mother Gwen wrote to Waugh, and her letter is now in the British Library. Gwen wrote that she had saved all of Waugh’s letters to Olivia. She was hospitalized a few weeks after Olivia’s death and died in 1959. Harman Grisewood...
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“The secret of being well dressed on a moderate income is to choose one of the...”
– Evelyn Waugh, via A Suitable Wardrobe: “Beau Brummels on $14,000 a Year”.
Or in modern times, matching the bespoke clothing with Filene’s Basement and Nordstrom Rack. :-)
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“I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via inaneambiguity) 