Libros de Evelyn Waugh (2 libros)

En 1929, el brillante y ácido escritor Evelyn Waugh tuvo la oportunidad de emprender un viaje a lo largo y ancho de todo el Mediterráneo, de Monte Carlo a Port Said, de El Cairo a Sevilla, pasando por ciudades como Nápoles, Constantinopla, Argel o Barcelona. Waugh, por entonces un valor emergente de la literatura inglesa, quiso dejar testimonio escrito de esta odisea. Sin embargo, como era consciente de lo poco original de sus destinos, se propuso dar una vuelta de tuerca a su relato y analizar los lugares y las personas que conoció adoptando una postura diferente, ingeniosa y muy, muy...

Waugh begins his autobiographical story with his inheritance, writing of the energetic, literary, and sometimes eccentric men and women who contributed to his genius. His childhood was for the most part warm, bright and serene, but he remembers the Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed as somewhat painful. His life at Oxford was essentially a catalogue of friendship, an exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. Finally, he closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired his work Decline and Fall. Waugh comienza su relato ...