![]() The two chapters of Work Suspended are about the best Waugh could do - for once the contrast of high rhetoric with the invariable viciousness of interwar life (which seems, viz. ![]() ![]() The best stories are from the period just before Brideshead Revisited - just before, that is, ornamentation crept over the sense, like ivy creeping over a brick wall. Loveday's Little Outing," or "Winner Takes All," which at the time glittered with the sinister charm of an invitation to have tea with Aleister Crowley, now seem merely thuggish, Saki trimmed out with Jazz Age flourishes. ![]() Reading his short stories, the striking thing is how the fashionable stories have faded. Evelyn Waugh was a cruel, faddish, reactionary snob - a pattern, in other words, to succeeding English satirists like Martin Amis and Will Self. ![]()
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