Evelyn Waugh (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Selina Hastings
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Marriage, Writing, Novelists, Creative process, Drinking or drunkenness
- Locales: Paris, France, South America, Great Britain, Abyssinia
Although he has been widely respected as one of the most penetrating satirists of the twentieth century, Evelyn Waugh’s public image as a reactionary curmudgeon, uncaring father and drunken sot has tended to deflect attention from his complex character and from his serious commitment to his craft. Appearing shortly after the two-volume life (published in 1987 and 1992) by Martin Stannard, which many critics assumed would be the definitive work, Hastings’ biography does not dispute Stannard’s depiction of Waugh as an often unpleasant person but alters the picture to add important...
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