Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novel Of The 1930's

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Handful of Dust is also 1930s, and I'd say Waugh's best novel.

― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:54 (six months ago) link

Alfred, right. You know called her fiance "a penniless Jew" and married him anyway. I love her books but she's not a sainted character.

― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 December 2023 00:46 (six months ago) link

No one here called her one, I don't think? Those so-called modernists, man.

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 00:51 (six months ago) link

we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating."

Sounds like she was really drawn into/toward it for a while, and think there are other comments indicating that? Maybe it was too much for her stability as a writer, an explorer? (Also reminds me that I was thinking about starting a thread about Books You Wish You Hadn't Finished, or maybe there is one.)

― dow, Monday, 18 December 2023 02:30 (six months ago) link

Well, she was] a snob (title of one of her late essays: "Am I A Snob?"), but her animus towards Joyce was typical competitiveness: he thought he was encroaching on similar terrain, etc.

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2023 02:54 (six months ago) link

FW sinks beneath the Waves...

― alimosina, Monday, 18 December 2023 21:14 (six months ago) link

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