![]() Yes, he could be terribly self-centered and, at times, selfishly cruel. Yes, Evelyn Waugh reveled in being politically incorrect. But if he was an eccentric, he was not a crank. Waugh’s personality encompassed an astonishing range of idiosyncracies. ![]() Wodehouse, Graham Greene, and others, anyone who reads Waugh closely immediately senses that he was a master craftsman of English prose, a man incapable of writing a dull sentence. At the same time, his humor was complemented by his literary craftsmanship, which was arguably the most well developed among his contemporaries however one sorts out the relative merits of Waugh, P.G. John Waugh, born in the Hampstead area of London in 1903, the younger son of a literary critic and publisher? What was his art? To begin at the surface, he was a brilliant satirist – one of the funniest writers of the twentieth century. It would be a mistake, though, to miss the subtleties of Waugh’s art or the depth of his novelist’s vision by focusing exclusively on his personal quirks and eccentricities, amusing or appalling as they may be. ![]() In Evelyn Waugh, however, nature and grace contrived to fashion an exceptionally complex, even maddening, character understanding him in full would require the combined skills of an archaeologist, a psychiatrist, and an old-school spiritual director. More than one novelist has had an intricate, even prickly, personality. BUY THE BOOK: Click here to purchase the book from. ![]()
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