The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh was the last of the great letter-writers, and his witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends contains more than a touch of malice. In the 1920S Waugh wrote to a schoolfriend about his undergraduate escapades at Oxford and to Harold Acton and Henry Green of his unhappy jobs, his literary plans and the break-up of his first marriage. In the 1930S his boisterous letters to Lady Mary Lygon recount his successes, social life and travels in Ethiopia and South America. During the war, writing to his second wife, Laura Herbert, he revealed the strength of his love for her more vividly than has appeared elsewhere, as well as recording the events that were tőbe turnéd into his war novels. With peace came somé of the funniest of all his writings, inspired by worldly, fashionable women such as Ann Fleming, Lady Diana Cooper and Nancy Mitford. Politics are rarely mentioned in Waugh's letters and he discusses writing only with someone he recogrjizes as an equal, üke... Tovább

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Evelyn Waugh was the last of the great letter-writers, and his witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends contains more than a touch of malice. In the 1920S Waugh wrote to a schoolfriend about his undergraduate escapades at Oxford and to Harold Acton and Henry Green of his unhappy jobs, his literary plans and the break-up of his first marriage. In the 1930S his boisterous letters to Lady Mary Lygon recount his successes, social life and travels in Ethiopia and South America. During the war, writing to his second wife, Laura Herbert, he revealed the strength of his love for her more vividly than has appeared elsewhere, as well as recording the events that were tőbe turnéd into his war novels. With peace came somé of the funniest of all his writings, inspired by worldly, fashionable women such as Ann Fleming, Lady Diana Cooper and Nancy Mitford. Politics are rarely mentioned in Waugh's letters and he discusses writing only with someone he recogrjizes as an equal, üke Graham Greene. His deeply felt religious beliefs are made explicit to Thomas Merton and John Betjeman. But Waugh's main concern is to amuse, to describe the events of his life in a way that will give pleasure - and in this he is triumphantly successful. Waugh has at the same time created a record of his life more formai than diaries but more intimate than autobiography, and thus more revealing and truthful than either. Vissza