Evelyn Waugh's complex narrative of conversion in Brideshead Revisited, about the multilayered process by which Waugh brings his disillusioned protagonist and first-person narrator, Charles Ryder, to embrace a Christian worldview. Here, White explores not so much what Waugh plainly rejects in this novel but rather what Ryder, and, by extension in this highly autobiographical novel, Waugh himself, find most tempting, what desires and passions are hardest to subdue.
Together and separately, the six Mitford sisters - Nancy, (b. 1904), Pamela (1907), Diana (1910), Unity (1914), Jessica (Decca, 1917), Deborah (Debo, 192.0) - were friends with Evelyn Waugh and with Lytton Strachey, friends with Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, friends with the Duff Coopers and the Duchess of Windsor, friends with John Kennedy and Harold Macmillan; and went to mass Nazi rallies in Munich, to communist meetings in American suburbs, went to Court and to soirees at Clarence House, went to the inauguration and then to the funeral of President Kennedy, went to prison in London as dangerous persons, went to great houses in Paris and Ireland, and went to numerous fittings at the House of Dior. Among them, they wrote an immense number of books, many bestsellers, including Na...
London-based financier Robert Agostinelli pre- dicted to a mutual dining companion re- cently that I would only order Sapphire and tonic for pre-supper cocktails. "In his mind, drinking Bombay gin is one little way to help keep the Empire alive," the chairman of the Rhone Group explained, pointing out that a portrait of Queen Victoria adorns every bottle. And he was right. Seemingly minor habits mean a lot for the tweedy set that worships Evelyn Waugh, suffers to keep old Jaguars running and names their offspring after English monarchs. The zeal of Anglophiles tends to be overdone - like food in Old Blighty - because it needs to compensate for an anti-historical political correctness that has infected academia, twisting an objectively positive institution - the British Empire - into som...
NEW FILMS FRIDAY BRIDESHEAD REVISITED -- ** -- A slowly paced, uninvolving "revisitation" of Evelyn Waugh's beloved novel. Running time: 135 minutes, PG-13 (sex, brief nudity, profanity, slurs, violence)
Barber reviews several books about writer Kingsley Amis, including: (1) The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader; (2) The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie; (3) The Anti-Egotist by Paul Fussell; (4) Slipstream: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard; and (5) Kingsley Amis: A Biography by Eric Jacobs.
The homosexuals loved it. The Catholics loved it. The literary types went gaga over it. The cinephiles praised the filming, the drama critics raved about the casting, and everybody - everybody - in the fall of 1981 seemed to be watching the PBS presentation of ITV's "Brideshead Revisited. Now, 30 years on from that 11-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, an anniversary edition has been released in a packaged set (Acorn, three discs, DVD $59.99, Blu-ray $69.99). And to rewatch the series is to see - well, to see what a miracle that 1981 television version of "Brideshead Revisited" actually was.
Evelyn Waugh started out immensely proud of "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder," which he wrote in a feverish four months while on leave from the British army in 1944. He called it his "magnum opus. By 1959, when Waugh revised the work for reissue, he was less enamored of it. He confided to Graham Greene that he had "reread 'Brideshead,' and I am appalled."
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