Evelyn Waugh
Subtitle: a literary life
By: David Wykes.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Waugh's life and his literary life exist in dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were objects, unrelated to the life of their author."--BOOK JACKET.

"This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fiction throughout Waugh's career, focusing on the endless negotiation he conducted between life and art, and on why, from being author of the anarchic, hilarious Decline and Fall, he transformed himself into the author of the romantic, eschatological Brideshead Revisited."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-213) and index.