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Category Archives: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
–10 December will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens. This is commemorated in the Financial Times by an article entitled “The World Christopher Hitchens Left Behind”. This is by Janan Ganash who might have used as … Continue reading
Hallowe’en Roundup
–Giles Coren writing in The Times surveys the plight of the male novelist in today’s literary market. After describing the difficulties of getting published in a world where publishers and readers are mostly women as well as the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Collections, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Aleteia, Country Houses, Daily Telegraph, First Things, The Economist, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Brideshead to Bridgerton
–A new Netflix serial “Bridgerton” has been compared in several papers to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited and its film and TV adaptations. Here an excerpt from the Bloomsberg News: … “Bridgerton” is a sly and sexy Netflix Inc. series set … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Bloomberg News, Netflix, New Criterion, The Times, TheRoyalUK.com, Wall Street Journal
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Pinfold’s Voices
Yuexi Liu has written an essay on Waugh’s 1957 novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. This is included in the latest issue of Modernist Cultures (No. 15/2, 2020) published by the Edinburgh University Press. Here is the abstract: Waugh’s last … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Modernist Cultures, Thornfield Hall, Yuexi Liu
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Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
–In another article about the proposed new Brideshead TV series, Alexander Larman wonders whether there might not be more deserving works of Waugh for adaptation. This is published in the latest issue of The Critic. After noting that it will … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Billy Wilder, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Jonathan Coe, New Criterion, Night and Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic
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Muggeridge Anniversary
The National Review has posted both print and audio versions of an article in which M D Aeschliman notes the upcoming 30th anniversary of Malcolm Muggeridge’s death. It opens with this: Malcolm Muggeridge died 30 years ago and had so … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Malcolm Muggeridge, National Review
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Roundup: Censorship and Adaptation
–There has been a colloquy in the provincial British press about racist language in Evelyn Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief. This was begun in an article or letter by Michael O’Neill of Penarth that was reproduced from the Western Mail. … Continue reading
Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) R I P
The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Ronald Harwood, noted primarily as a writer of screenplays based on adaptations of novels or plays. These adaptations include such well-received films as the Oscar-winning The Pianist (2003), One Day in the Life … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Theater
Tagged Ronald Harwood, The Daily Telegraph, The Times
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Waugh’s Politics in Fiction and Real Life
Writer and historian Minoo Dinshaw, author of the recently published biography of Steven Runciman, has written an article for Catholic Herald which traces Waugh’s political views through the characters in his novels. It is entitled “Forewaughned” and begins with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Catholic Herald, Minoo Dinshaw
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Roundup: Protests and Summer
–The “Rhodes Must Fall” debate has been revived in Oxford in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests. See previous post. In the Daily Mail, a comment on the matter by Evelyn Waugh is brought to bear: Oxford will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, National Review, Prospect, RTV Slovenia, Wall Street Journal
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