Hints and tips:
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...Waugh? All as universal and attractive as a black T-shirt (stay away from Henry James and James Joyce, which create a heavy, academic look)....
...For some, this may be the chance to finally get around to finishing Joyce or Proust, or to seek solace in works elsewhere....
...The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce. Which books will be sold here in 20 years, if any books are sold here at all?...
...I should love to learn more of your method from “correcting” Henry James or James Joyce....
...Unlike Joyce, they saw no need to deconstruct it. They were fundamentally unexperimental, more interested in describing the world than in worrying about whether it could be described....
...I can only talk about writers whom I enjoy: Hergé, Lewis Carroll, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Giorgio Bassani. If you could own any painting, what would it be?...
...illiterate madman in a hut in the Amazon, looks suspiciously like Waugh’s satire of the parent’s experience....
...His “digested read” spoofs work best on the overpraised, not on the classics, and Henry James, Joyce and Proust slither past his satire....
...Six characters an hour means a severe selection: so far absent have been Sterne and (George) Eliot, Dickens and Trollope, Joyce and Waugh (we may get to some of them; Dickens is likely to slip in through...
...Laurence Sterne, Milan Kundera, PG Wodehouse, Robert Musil, Gertrude Stein, Denis Diderot, Bohumil Hrabal, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh and Henry James....
...Evelyn Waugh himself could not invent such Americans. There is a particular problem when poetry and politics mix. Poetry seeks truth through beauty and vice versa....
...Lodge has also produced critical works on Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. He is married and lives in Birmingham. What book changed your life? James Joyce’s Ulysses, which I read as an undergraduate....
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