Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Novelist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh, surveying U.S. letters for a St. Louis interviewer, named his favorite American writer: tireless Crime Fictioneer Erie Stanley Gardner. As for U.S. customs, Waugh complained that Sunday blue laws had deprived him of wine with his meals in Mobile, Ala. He found this situation "a frightful disgrace," which was driving many a wretched U.S. schoolboy to furtive whisky nipping...
SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE (89 pp.) -Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
This short novel from Evelyn Waugh (published in Britain in 1947*) reads like a malicious parody of his good ones. It is the story of a middle-aged teacher of the classics who happens to become (through some "blood-brotherhood in dimness") the greatest living authority on an obscure 17th Century Central European poet named Bellorius. On the Bellorius Tercentenary, Scott-King is invited to Simona, a city in Neutralia, for the celebration...
...Disguised Professor. Neutralia itself (which, Waugh cautiously explains, represents no existing state) has suffered from "dynastic wars, foreign invasion, disputed successions, revolting colonies, endemic syphilis, impoverished soil, masonic intrigues, revolutions, restorations, cabals, juntas, pronunciamentos, liberations, constitutions, coups d'état, dictatorships, assassinations, agrarian reforms, popular elections, foreign intervention, repudiation of loans, inflations of currency, trade unions, massacres, arson, atheism, secret societies." It has become a totalitarian republic whose dictator is popular because he kept it out of World...
...resolute deflation of the funny scenes give it a grisly monotony; the book suggests a tired master who seems to be trying to see how far he can go in revealing his contempt for his large and profitable audience. Out of it, however, Scott-King emerges as one of Waugh's rarer characters...