The book includes two works by Evelyn Waugh, an outstanding British writer, novelist, journalist, essayist, biographer, critic, one of the finest stylists in English prose of the twentieth century.
In the novel “Brideshead Revisited” (1945) from the perspective of The successful artist Charles Ryder tells the story of the life of the aristocratic Marchmain family, with whom the narrator’s youth was closely connected and to whose family estate he had the chance to return years later. A recognized master of black humor and caustic, witty satire, Evelyn Waugh wrote an unexpectedly lyrical, nostalgic and confessional book, endowing the main character with many autobiographical traits: memories of a fun time studying at Oxford, a passion for drawing, a love of ancient architecture and the patriarchal way of English estates, contempt for the arrogance and self-righteous vulgarity of the nouveau riche, a complex conflict between personal feelings and Catholic beliefs. The story “Unforgettable” (1947), a tragicomedy full of murderous sarcasm from the life of a California funeral home, became, like the novel that preceded it, a literary event of the year on both sides of the ocean.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Translation: Boris Nosik, Inna Bernstein
Pages: 512 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 220x150x25 mm
Series: Foreign literature. Big books
