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...PLACE IN THS BAZAAR (233 pp.) -Alec Waugh- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...study, From Shylock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction, no one had bothered to ask the important questions: why the picture of the villanious Jew has remained constant from the medieval ballads about the murder of Hugh or Lincoln to the novels of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, why the conscious attempts to reject the stereotype have resulted in sub-literary propaganda, and why Jewish characters are now being moved from the periphery of the novel to be placed at its center...
...mark in the long catalogue of those who attended Oxford and survived to write about it. The book denotes a haunting change since Max Beerbohm's glittering undergraduate duke, orator, wit, scholar and élégant set Zuleika Dobson and the Isis on fire, or even since Waugh's Lord Sebastian Flyte lugged his Teddy-bear to the barber...
...fantastic that satire, of which parody is a subdivision, is discouraged because reality outdistances it. What can a satirist add to the U2-Summit-Meeting fiasco? Or to the dealings between the United Nations and Premier Lumumba of the Congo Republic-the latter a character right out of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief? Indeed, in the Congo tragicomedy, history seems to be parodying itself...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. The final volume of Lady Diana's autobiography shows again her delightful ability to make real people sound like Waugh characters, a gift all the more impressive when one understands that "Duckling," for instance, is Winston Churchill, and "Wormwood" is Charles de Gaulle...