Word: auberon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOXGLOVE SAGA (252 pp.)-Auberon Waugh-Simon & Schuster...
...Evelyn." The reader turning to this novel is likely to suffer not so much irritation as a double take: the man staring from the dust jacket is the image of young Evelyn Waugh; the style and subject matter belong to Evelyn Waugh. But the author's name is Auberon, and he is 22 instead...
Other literary sons-John Phillips Marquand, Nathaniel Benchley, Klaus Mann -have tried with indifferent success to write like Dad. Auberon Waugh conies closer than any of them to pulling it off: at first glance, The Foxglove Saga could pass for a sequel to Decline and Fall. Like Evelyn's first novel, The Saga opens in an English boys' school and is a picaresque, loosely jointed account of several old school chums as they lurch through a succession of army camps, prisons, hospitals and asylums. The characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall...
...Welfare State England. Moreover, there is something lacking-the figure of the innocent but virtuous hero (Paul Penny feather of Decline and Fall, Adam Fenwick-Symes of Vile Bodies) whose reasoned view of an unreasoning world gave a special cutting edge to the elder Waugh's comedy. Auberon says he has no interest in being a professional novelist. He wrote The Foxglove Saga because it was what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom of Youth at 19). So "when Father told...
Completing his freshman year at Oxford, Auberon Waugrt, 20-year-old son of Author Evelyn Waugh, established himself an heir to his father's literary precocity by announcing that his first novel will be published in September. Theme: "Terrible mother-son hatred." Title: The Foxglove Saga. "I didn't want to call it something disgustingly contemporary like Rushing Nowhere or Rotten...