The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Shortly after World War II
- Setting: England and Ceylon
- Principal Characters: Gilbert Pinfold, Mrs. Pinfold, Dr. Drake, Angel, Goneril, Margaret, Captain Steerforth, Mrs. Scarfield
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Voyages, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Alienation, England or English people, Upper classes, Sick persons, Hallucinations or illusions
- Locales: Oceans
THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD is the interwoven story of three distinct subjects: the protagonist, a fictitious author and country squire; Evelyn Waugh himself, who, the headnote reads, furnished the central experience of the novel from an event in his own life; and England in its uncomfortable recovery from the effects of World War II.
Gilbert Pinfold stands for both Waugh as a person and as an observer of history. He is both man and symbol, a combination of personality and of class. Pinfold is of course intensely English, so much so that he seems at times a mere bundle...
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