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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Waugh’s Christmas in Yugoslavia: 1944
Waugh spent Christmas in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, where he was sent after Belgrade fell to the Russians and Partisans. This is the 75th anniversary of that holiday celebration. He had to travel via Bari in Italy and arrived a few days … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Letters, World War II
Tagged Christmas 1944, Dubrovnik, Nancy Mitford
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The Oxford Novel (more)
In a recent post, we considered a discussion of novelist William Boyd about “the Oxford novel” (as well as well as other novels associated with particular cities). More recently, a new literary periodical–the Oxford Review of Books–has taken up the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged John Phipp, Oxford Review of Books, Philip Larkin
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General Election Roundup
Waugh is cited recently in news reports relating to the Conservative Party’s victory in last week’s general election: –In the Sunday Times, Andrew Gimson, author of the book Boris, The Making of a Prime Minister, writes of Johnson’s ability to … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic World Report, General Election, margarine, MENAFN.com, The Economist, The Sunday Times
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Waugh in Slovenia
Waugh’s novel Scoop has recently been published in Slovenian, the language spoken in what was once the northernmost province of former Yugoslavia. The translation is by Dušanka Zabukovec who also wrote an Introduction. The book is published by Cankarjeva založba, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Tagged Cankarjeva založba, Dušanka Zabukovec, Slovenian translations
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TLS: Cities and Writers/Officers and Novelists
A few weeks ago, the TLS published an article by novelist William Boyd (“Footless giant: A visit to Kafka’s Prague”) about his recent trip to that city. It opens with this: …it being Prague, my thoughts turn almost instantly to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Oxford, World War II
Tagged David Piper, Franz Kafka, Sean O'Brien, TLS, Trieste, William Boyd
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Waugh in History
Former Conservative MP and European Commissioner and now Life Peer Christopher Tugendhat has written a book called A History of Britain Through Books: 1900-1964. In his introduction, he explains that the book has “two wellsprings”. The first is his own … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Tugendhat, The Herald (Glasgow)
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Adventide Roundup
–There are two comments on similarities between the governmental missteps that lead to the release of a murderous jihadist terrorist and Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Conservative columnist Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph: The deaths inside and outside … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, First Thinga, Society of Biblical Literature, Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald
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La Prensa Article Marks Brideshead Anniversary
The Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa has published an article marking the 75th anniversary of the completion of Brideshead Revisited in 1944. This is entitled “Bajo el hechizo del recuerdo” (“Under the spell of remembrance”) and is written by Guillermo … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Guillermo Belcore, La Prensa (Buenoa Aires), Tusquets
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