The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction

di D. Marcel DeCoste (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive, artful whole precisely as they explore the extent to which the writer’s and the Catholic’s vocations can coincide. For all their generic and stylistic diversity, these novels pursue a new, sustained exploration of Waugh’s art and faith both. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in his later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of a too-avid devotion to art in the context of modern secularism, forging in the second half of his career a literary achievement that both narrates and enacts a contrary, and Catholic, literary vocation.

• Autore: D. Marcel DeCoste
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 196 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780367879891

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