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Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil

Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil

Myers, William

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1041079621
ISBN13: 9781041079620
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn Waugh and will persuade those familiar with it to look at it afresh. This introduction to Waugh's novels places them high in the catalogue of great fiction. It claims for them an intellectual coherence, subtlety and seriousness which Waugh's disconcerting comic gifts and extravagant public and writing persona have tended to put in the shade. In addressing the nature of Waugh's comic writing William Myers has borrowed George Bataille's concept of Evil as a convenient way of dealing with the most troubling and exciting aspects of Waugh's work: its sadism, its childish irresponsibility, its fascination with lunacy and death.

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