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Tag Archives: TLS
Waugh and Proust: A Handful de Chez Quoi ?
A brief letter in this week’s TLS raises several interesting points about Waugh’s understanding of Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is from Dorothy McMillan at the University of Glasgow: Sir, – As your correspondents have shown … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dorothy MacMillan, Marcel Proust, Tatler Lady Kinvara Balfour, The Hill, TLS
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U and Non-U (more)
The U and Non-U debate continues in the pages of the TLS. The latest batch of comments centers on the proper salutation before having a drink. A letter takes issue with the Non-U status imposed on “Cheers” by Nancy Mitford, … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged TLS, U and Non-U
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U and Non-U in TLS
The U and Non-U debate about social class distinctions that raged (if that’s the correct word) in the 1950s has resurfaced in the TLS. This appears in its N.B. column that is written by J. C. (believed to be James … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Discussions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged James Campbell, Nancy Mitford, TLS, U and Non-U
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Roundup: Six Novelists, Two of them Waughs
Maclean’s magazine has published an interview of Tom Rachman on the occsaion of the publication of a new novel, his third. This is entitled The Italian Teacher: “about an artist trying to find himself in the shadow of his painter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alfred Duggan, Allan Massie, Catholic Herald, D.J.Taylor, Maclean's, Powells Books, TLS, Tom Rachman, VisitBritain.com
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Waugh and Norman Mailer: “The Naked and the Read”
This week’s TLS has an article (“The Naked and the Read”) about Norman Mailer’s library. This is by J Michael Lennon, Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. Mailer seems to have been a book accumulator rather than a book collector like … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged J Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer, TLS
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Evil Genius on BBC Podcast
BBC has signed comedian and Evelyn Waugh fan Russell Kane do a series of podcasts on the theme of the Evil Genius. In this, he will trace characters through history who have been geniuses but who have also done horrible … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Adam Gopnick, BBC, Russell Kane, TLS
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Céline, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole
Frederic Raphael is still best known for the TV adaptation of his own 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes, which is often compared with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the popular and critical success … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Celine, Frederic Raphael, Guardian, Lancashire Post, Lloyd Cole, Muriel Spark, The Commotions, The Glittering Prizes, TLS
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Weekend Roundup–Friends at a Distance: Mitford/Waugh Letters
An article on the books blog The Captive Reader is effectively a new review of The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh first published in 1996. This is written by “Claire of Vancouver” and opens with this: Mitford and … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Letters, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged catholicism.org, Latin Mass, Lucy Beckett, Muriel Spark, Nancy Mitford, Robert Hickson, The Irish Times, TLS
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