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Category Archives: Translations
Roundup: Handful and Helena
–Several Spanish language papers have reported a new Spanish translation of A Handful of Dust. This is by Society member Carlos Villar Flor who has participated in several EWS events. Here’s an edited translation of the announcement: Professor of English Literature … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Discussions, Helena, Translations
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Chicago Tribune, Collegium Institute, First Things
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Spring Equinox Roundup
—The Economist has an article about the updating of the “basket of goods” put together by the UK’s Office for National Statistics for the purpose of measuring inflation. Here is an excerpt: To read the contents list of the basket … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Translations
Tagged Liberties, The Economist
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Waugh in Italian
The announcement of an Italian translation of Waugh’s final travel book has appeared in at least two Italian papers. This is A Tourist in Africa (Un Turista in Africa) published by Aldelphi Edizioni. Here’s a translated excerpt of the review … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Translations
Tagged Adelphi, Il Libraio, Il Manifesto
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Roundup: Cousins, Catholics, Allegories and Adaptations
–The London Review of Books has posted a review by Neal Acherson of the new biography of Claude Cockburn by his son Patrick. This in mentioned in a previous post and is entitled “Believe Nothing Until It Has Been Officially … Continue reading
Mid-May Roundup
–The Italian language newspaper Il Manifesto has posted an article (“The ivory brush and the tabernacle”) on Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. This is written by Viola Pagetti. Here are slightly edited extracts translated (by Google) from the opening paragraphs: Having … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film: The Scarlet Woman, Internet, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television Programs, Translations
Tagged BBC, Il Manifesto, John Betjeman, The Bioscope, The Homebound Symphony
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Roundup: Letters and A Lecture
—BBC Radio Four Extra has announced the rebroadcast of a 1996 adaptation of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. This will be contained in two one-hour episodes. The first is broadcast on Tuesday, 24 October at 0500 repeated at 1500 … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Auctions, Lectures, Letters, Newspapers, Radio Programs, The Loved One, Translations, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, New Statesman, University of Oklahoma
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Mother’s Day Roundup
–Nicholas Lezard writing in the New Statesman calls on Basil Seal to explain why asparagus (now coming into season in northerly climates) is the most sexy vegetable: … like all things sexy, it trembles on the edge of exploitation. In … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Translations
Tagged Asparagus, Bloomsbury Academic, Crisis magazine, New Statesman, The Oxford Student, TLS
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