![]() ![]() By indirection it summarizes and comments upon a time and a society. "Brideshead Revisited" has the depth and weight that are found in a writer working in his prime, in the full powers of an eager, good mind and a skilled hand, retaining the best of what he has already learned. "Brideshead Revisited," different in setting, tone and technique from all his earlier creative work, is yet a logical development. This has been apparent from the very beginning of his career-a career in which ![]() Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time. ![]() Interesting in story and in style, and not least in what it implies about its author and his growth as an analyst and an artist.įor Mr. Waugh's admirers who might recently have suspected he was exhausting a rather limited field-it will almost certainly be his most interesting book in ten years: more Just now that it is bigger and richer, and that-to those of Mr. Whether "Brideshead Revisited" is technically as expert, of its kind, as "Decline and Fall, "Vile Bodies" or "A Handful of Dust" may be debatable. ![]() Y theme, says the narrator in Evelyn Waugh's latest, his most carefully written and deeply felt novel, "is memory, that winged host." And, with that, theīrightly devastating satirist of England's Twenties and Thirties moves from one world to another and a larger one: from the lunacy of a burlesqued Mayfair, very glib and funny and masking the serious point in farce, to a world in DecemEvelyn Waugh's Finest Novel By JOHN K. ![]()
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