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Anthony Powell, a novelist whom British Critic V.S. Pritchett has ranked with Evelyn Waugh, and whom Evelyn Waugh has ranked with Proust (though "more realistic and much funnier"), is almost totally neglected in the U.S. It is not that Powell is dull; he is indeed much funnier than Proust (though not, perhaps, to the French). It is not that his subject matter is so special as to be outside U.S. sympathy; by now, British upper and middle class life should be less exotic to the U.S. reader than Yoknapatawpha County or the gas-filled pads of Jack Kerouac...
British Novelist Spark has been compared to Evelyn Waugh, but the comparison is inexact: she is, in fact, a kind of welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated...
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...
Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; the author herself married a leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...
...Reading Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; another became the wife of a Fascist; the author herself married a Leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...