Title: The picturesque prison
Description: This study of the life and works of Evelyn Waugh traces the novelist's pursuit of his vocation and his long retreat from a world which he came to regard as a spiritual dungeon. Jeffrey Heath explores the paradoxical elements in Waugh's career: his quest for a refuge itself proved to be a prison and his devotion to the Augustan graces was accompanied by a lasting attraction to a Dionysiac age without restraint. The deep cleft in Waugh's nature imbued his art with the characteristic quirky complexity which has fascinated many readers, but it left him a choleric and melancholy man who never fully accepted his calling as a writer.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Ecrivains anglais, English Novelists, Biographies, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM, Biography, European, Waugh, evelyn, 1903-1966, Écrivains anglais, English fiction, History and criticism
People: Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)