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Il y a 5 jours · Evelyn Waugh (born October 28, 1903, London, England—died April 10, 1966, Combe Florey, near Taunton, Somerset) was an English writer regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day. Waugh was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Hertford College, Oxford.
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Il y a 20 heures · Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is an example of great art on the Right. The favorite of many Catholics, this novel depicts the conversion of a young English artist named Charles Ryder from the banality of secular culture to the truth of the Catholic faith. Waugh weaves together the threads of Ryder’s professional life as an artist, his ...
Il y a 4 jours · It was perhaps the last question ever put to Evelyn Waugh. Whose death, when it came — on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, soon after returning home from morning Mass, celebrated by his great friend, Jesuit Father Philip Caraman, in the liturgical language he loved best, i.e., Latin — could scarcely have been happier.
Il y a 5 jours · Arguably Evelyn Waugh’s best novel, certainly his most famous, and an immediate bestseller. Brideshead Revisited follows the aristocratic Flyte family from the 1920s through to the Second World War.
Il y a 5 jours · The latest volume of the Society’s thrice yearly journal Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 54.3 (Winter 2023) has been posted. Here is a description of its contents by the Society’s Secretary, Jamie Collinson: This edition features a brilliant essay by Tim Nau on the names Waugh gave his characters. I think this is an underrated element of Waugh ...
Il y a 2 jours · On 7March 1965, Pope Paul VI (1897–1978; r. 1963–78) celebrated the first-ever Catholic Mass in the Italian language, in accordance with liturgical reforms suggested during Vatican II, in the otherwise-unremarkable Chiesa di Ognissanti in Rome, which was completed in 1920. That day, the pope openly spoke of “sacrificing” the Church’s ...
Il y a 4 jours · Nearly a century ago, when the British Empire was at its widest, when our cities were prosperous and still unbombed, when our industry flooded the markets and our navies ruled the waves—back then, Evelyn Waugh could end a book on the savagery and squalor of the rest of the world with a nightmarish scene in a London restaurant. If you want ...
