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Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order. Composed between 1939-62, the late stories of Evelyn Waugh are in turn blackly comic and bitingly satirical. In 'The Sympathetic Passenger' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker, while 'Charles Ryder's Schooldays' provides a hilarious and fragmentary insight into life before Brideshead. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Work Suspended is an unfinished novel. A writer returns to London after the death of his father, a painter, who was killed in a car accidents. The fragments describes how the author moves from a bohemian lifestyle abroad to a homely life in England. There are two absurd episodes in which the author has to deal with the man who killed his father. There is no real plot. Work Suspended does not seem very attractive to casual readers.
""Charles Ryder's Schooldays" was written in the same year as Brideshead Revisited. It is a fragment that was found among Waugh's papers. It is not included in the novel, and deals with Ryder's youth. The fragment can be read as a separate short story.
Scott-King's Modern Europe is a long short story or novella. The novella reads like a compendium volume to Black Mischief, as it deals with a "banana republic" in Europe. The fictional country has many characteristics of Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia, andcan be read as a criticism of totalitarian states as they emerged after World War II.
More dystopian fiction was conceived in the form of the novella Love Among the Ruins, which criticizes the welfare state as it emerged in Britain, particularly criticizing the penetentiary system. Waugh was quite visionary in predicting a state department of euthenasia. While Orwell's Nineteen-eightyfour may be seen as a "hard' future dystopia, Love Among the Ruins is a 'soft" future dystopia, not more or less horrendous in its outlook.
"Tactical Exercise", "Compassion" and ""Basil Seal Rides Again" are each short stories which are often published together with Waugh's shorter novels. ( )