Brideshead Revisited - Waugh, Evelyn
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Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.
'Lush and evocative ... Expresses at once the…mehr

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Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.

'Lush and evocative ... Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit'
The Times
Autorenporträt
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Rezension
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Besprechung von 24.11.2013

26. Glück einfach aufheben

Es ist wichtig, früh im Leben viele Töpfe voller Gold zu deponieren. Man weiß nicht, wann man sie mal brauchen kann. Sebastian hat das früh gewusst: "Ich würde gern überall, wo ich glücklich war, etwas Kostbares vergraben. Dann kann ich später, wenn ich hässlich, alt und trübsinnig bin, zurückkommen, es ausgraben und mich daran erinnern." Vieles hat er hier vergraben, in Brideshead. Das Meiste aber in seinem Kopf. Und Evelyn Waugh hat es so schön, lebensweise und sehnsüchtig aufgeschrieben, und Pociao hat es genial neu übersetzt. Dem Leser geht es heute so: "Am blauen Wasser unter den raschelnden Palmen seines Bewusstseins war er glücklich wie ein Südseeinsulaner."

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