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Evelyn Waugh: Satirist or Comic Genius?
by Hugh Mahoney
Gore Vidal called Evelyn Waugh 'our time's first satirist.' Edmond Wilson thought Waugh a `comic genius.' Vidal wasthe best satirist of his day and Wilson the greatest literary critic of his. Yet these two men did not agree on the nature of Waugh's writing.
Which should come as no surprise. Waugh's first novel, Decline and Fall, is often funny, but it's hardly satire. A Handful of Dust, if we focus on the first half of the book and overlook the second, is brilliant satire, right up there with The Loved One. These two novels are the only true satires Waugh wrote. The rest, and there are several, are largely comic novels.
It becomes necessary then to arrive at a definition of satire. J.A. Coddon writes that "[the satirist] takes it upon himself to correct, censure, and ridicule the follies and vices of society and thus to bring contempt and derision upon aberrations from a desirable and civilized norm." A desirable and civilized normthat's the essential requirement, and if we add the condition that satire should focus on a prescribed subject, not an anarchic shooting from the hip, we have the prerequisites of a workable definition.
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'No Prophet and, I Hope, No Hack'By ALAN BELL
THE ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF EVELYN WAUGH Edited by Donat Gallagher. |
his enormous and useful compilation matches in bulk, and often in interest, the editions of Evelyn Waugh's diary and letters that appeared in and Vast though it is, ''The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh'' is in fact only a selection, and the editor has appended a fairly complete page bibliography of Waugh's other occasional writings. Some of these omissions are no less interesting than the essays Donat Gallagher, who teaches English at the James Cook University in Australia, has included, and there was surely a case for cutting down on the juvenilia and the rather standardized early journalism. We must, however, be grateful for so much unfamiliar material that will help us to reassess Waugh's lesser writings and balance them against the flood of personal anecdote that inevitably concentrates on the disagreeable side of his personality. Had the diary not been published before the letters, a very different general view of Waugh's character might have prevailed.
Mr. Gallagher's introductions to various phases of Waugh's journalism are particularly helpful