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Sto caricando le informazioni... Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing (2003)di Evelyn Waugh
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Apparently Waugh did not allow any of his travel books to be reprinted during his lifetime, which I think was prudent. Writing is of course a livelihood, not merely artistic and creative expression, but Waugh’s travel writing was pretty exclusively in the former category with little of the latter. The material in Remote People and Waugh in Abyssinia was collected in a journalistic capacity and retains interest because of the historic events being covered, although Waugh’s obvious sympathy with the Italian cause in Ethiopia is disconcerting. I enjoyed Ninety-Two Days mostly because Waugh was visiting a country, Guyana, still not regarded as a tourist destination and exploring the interior, a landscape unfamiliar even to most Guyanese. The most egregious sell-out is Robbery under Law, written under contract to the Pearson family whose oil assets had been confiscated by the Mexican government. Graham Greene’s visit to Mexico around the same time produced The Power and the Glory, one of his greatest novels. Waugh’s PR effort is a painful contrast. Written in 1938, Robbery under Law is full of predictions about the world geopolitical future which are very wide of the mark, to put it charitably. But just when I was ready to throw this doorstop of a book (1064 pages) across the room some characteristic Waughian turn of phrase or original insight kept me going. Probably When the Going Was Good, a book of excerpts from four of these works he created after WW II, contains most of the best material. Waugh Abroad is for Waugh completists. Interesting largely for the reflection on current affairs. Waugh visits Africa and parts of the Middle east before WWII and describes the European powers picking the local leaders most likely to be helpful to them--decisions that we are still dealing with the effects of. He is very critical of the Mexican government of the 30s, though his greatest ire is raised by their persecution the Catholic church. He is also obviously not a supporter of the United Nations actions creating Israel. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiContieneThe Coronation of Haile Selassie di Evelyn Waugh (indirettamente)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume. Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned. From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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