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...Donleavy's most sustained effort at social comedy. But his stylistic idiosyncrasies are geared to convey energy rather than reflection. The gaudy array of types who tumble through Dar cy's life are more remarkable than remarked upon. The works of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh provide an object lesson here: if the subject of a novel is manners, the writer must be on his very best...
NONFICTION: Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys -The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh,edited by Michael Davie Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni -Ring, Jonathan Yardley -The River Congo, Peter Forbath
NONFICTION: Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley ∙The Totalitarian Temptation, Jean-François Revel William Morris, E. P. Thompson
...Waugh was an Establishment of one. His genius, self-knowledge and frequent self-loathing set him apart. Roman Catholicism, to which he converted in 1930, provided an intellectual and ritual framework for his deeply pessimistic view of his institutions and attachments, indeed of all mankind. It was the classical view of lost Eden -of damnation without God's grace-that could lead Waugh at the height of his fame and good fortunes to ask, "Why am I not at ease? Why is it I smell all the time wherever I turn the reek of the Displaced Persons' Camp...
Diaries Editor Michael Davie does not presume to answer that question. His job, which he has performed with unobtrusive competence, was to provide concise background, explanations and deletions in accordance with British libel laws and his own sense of decency. Waugh himself was responsible for the most notable omission, the Oxford entries that refer to his undergraduate adventures in homosexuality. There are no diaries to cover his cuckolding and the collapse of his first marriage in 1929. For his hallucinations in 1954, one must refer back to Gilbert Pinfold...