Word: auberon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Piqued by the sort of obituary notices his father, Novelist Evelyn Waugh, had received, young Auberon Waugh, 26, displayed some of the malicious wit that he inherited, writing a series of parody obits for London's Daily Mirror, in which he buried some of the "dead" who are still quite quick. He took special delight in his "scabrous epitaph" for Critic Malcolm Muggeridge, 63, who had done one of the obits offensive to Auberon. "In an unsavoury and fashion-obsessed period of history," wrote Evelyn's lad, himself a novelist and journalist, "he taught us all how disgusting...
...VIOLETS NOW? by Auberon Waugh. 252 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Auberon Waugh is the son of the late Evelyn Waugh and a facile satirist in his own right (The Foxglove Saga, Path of Dalliance). The hero of Violets is an epicene idealist who ghostwrites advice columns for a woman's magazine and comforts his faltering ego in a spare-time campaign for world peace. He also campaigns to seduce the white mistress of a Negro extremist, but before he can succeed, he meanders his motorcycle euphorically, and fatally, into the path of a passing automobile. So much, says Author Auberon, for epicene idealists. He has obviously inherited his father...
PATH OF DALLIANCE by Auberon Waugh. 284 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Auberon Waugh wrote his first novel, he explained, because it was what was expected of him in a literary family: Father Evelyn wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and Uncle Alec wrote The Loom of Youth at 19. Having produced The Foxglove Saga at 21 ("My boy," his father had told him, "it is time you wrote your first book"), Auberon announced his retirement from literature. It is a shame he changed his mind. Foxglove Saga was modeled rather too closely after Decline and Fall-but at least it was funny. Path of Dalliance is modeled on the same book...