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Evelyn Waugh
Geburtstag: 28. Oktober 1903
Todesdatum: 10. April 1966
Andere Namen:Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ['ɑrθər 'iːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən wɔː] war ein britischer Schriftsteller.
Mehrere seiner Romane gelten als Klassiker der englischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Time wählte Wiedersehen mit Brideshead und Eine Handvoll Staub zu den besten 100 englischsprachigen Romanen, die zwischen 1923 und 2005 veröffentlicht wurden. 2015 wählten 82 internationale Literaturkritiker und -wissenschaftler die satirischen Romane Scoop und Verfall und Untergang unter die bedeutendsten britischen Romane.
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Zitate Evelyn Waugh
„He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters — Dickens and Balzac even — were flagrantly guilty.“
— Evelyn Waugh
Chapter 1
„Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Part 2, Chapter 3
„Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.“
— Evelyn Waugh
Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
„In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.“
— Evelyn Waugh
Context: In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
Chapter 9
„I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„O God, make me good, but not yet“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Part 1, start of chapter 5
„To understand all is to forgive all.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„No one is ever holy without suffering.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„... for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
„These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.“
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
