Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics)

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La satira è sfrenata a cominciare da nomi e soprannomi: Lady Circumference, Lady Metroland, l’ex primo ministro Mr Outrage.

In the same flat, while pregnant Diana rested and read, Bryan was writing his first novel Singing Out of Tune (partly based on the Evelyns' split); Nancy was writing her first novel Highland Fling (elements were so like Vile Bodies that they had to be revised); and Evelyn himself was supposedly writing (possibly correcting proofs of Vile Bodies).

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This is a much stronger image than the provisional cover painted by Waugh and which was discussed here . But to come up with it, I strongly suspect Evelyn needed to be inspired by certain images in the official programme. The one below for a start, with its text above and below the car, and the bold, onrushing perspective: Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune described it as "a brilliant, giddy satiric romp with a discreetly moralistic viewpoint beneath its high-style wit", "a ball to watch", and "an incredibly entertaining film with a magnificent cast", and called Fry "a splendid director capable of visual dazzle and superb ensemble work". [12] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Chapter thirteen presents the third and final visit to Colonel Blount. The newly wed couple, Nina and Ginger, are to spend Christmas with her father. Only Ginger has been called up to his regiment, and so it's fair-haired Adam that's presented to Colonel Blount as 'Ginger'. Together they enjoy a surreal Christmas that ends with the local vicar informing the household that War has been declared. I wonder if Adam's Christmas card to Nina's father was anything like the Christmas card that Evelyn sent out a month or two after writing this scene. The Miles that Ginger finds to be such a topping fellow is called Miles Malpractice — who is completely unserious, flamboyant and effeminate. At one point, he is described by his aunt as looking “terribly tapette.”

According to Diana the visit was a success because Lytton Strachey ' was so greatly appreciated by Henry' . But it's the sense of lost opportunity that strikes me. He puts the money on a horse racing bet with a ‘Major’ who promptly disappears with the money. Adam goes to a fancy dress party where he meets Nina. They ‘go on’ afterwards to continue their revelries, staying with a girl who turns out to be the Prime Minister’s youngest daughter. The party-goers at Number 10 Downing Street are all reported in the morning newspapers.Don't worry, its an easy premise to grasp - here, let me explain... we bright young things are an erudite group of social laaah-de-dahs who favour a bohemian life style. We like the finer things in life and indulge our love of drinking, dancing and outlandish behaviour much to the joy of the press who like to follow us around documenting our frivolous and moderately hedonistic acts. We're also frightfully upper class and a tiny bit prone to navel gazing but some of us are quite arty. We can also be a little bit flaky and a wee bit emotionally sterile. Sometimes we talk a bit like the cast of Dawson's Creek would if they were transposed to 1920's London. If you'd like to put us in a modern context, we're like the cast of The Hills but we've got culture, money and talent on our side. Does that answer your question?" The antics of the Bright Young Things might be comically exaggerated, but they are set in a credible world of London and the home counties – of Mayfair, Shepherd’s Market, Fitzrovia, and Manchester Races. But a war which had not taken place is a different fictional – and moral – universe altogether. As Selina Hastings tells us in her biography of EW, in Paris that autumn, Evelyn had met and was being energetically pursued by Marcella Gump, a one-time girl-friend of Alec’s, and daughter of a Chicago paint millionaire. Every evening she telephoned to ask him to go out. And with the Talbot-Rices as chaperones, all three would go ‘Gumping’, as they called it, drinking and dancing at Le Boeuf sur le Toit . So 'gumping' is a private joke. Just as in Vile Bodies he replaced the word 'divine' with 'sheepish' to fulfil a promise he made to Jessica Mitford, sister of Diana and Nancy, the resulting sentence mentioning a minor character's 'perfectly sheepish house in Hertford Street'. Even the names are so obvious that instead of completing the characters' portraits, become the characters: a heavily smoking priest is called Bishop Philpotts, a silly but valiant lesbian is called Agatha Runcible, calling a journalist – even a homosexual one – Malpractice isn’t enough if his first name is not Miles and what better name for a prime minister other than Outrageous?

Trattasi del suo secondo romanzo, pubblicato nel 1930, e Waugh è ancora soprattutto satirico, non ha ancora raggiunto la chiave che io preferisco, l’ironia incrociata alla malinconia, la satira alla tragedia. But it wasn't to be. In Evelyn's absence, Diana soon found another unusually clever man, Oswald Mosley, leader of the British fascist party. And by the mid-thirties she was singing the praises of Adolf Hitler, for God's sake. She found him charming and fascinating, though, as I've said, she came to accept that he went on to do terrible things. The vilest body of all. A very good example of the difference between Guinness and Mitford minds. I was observed to be praying at Pool Place. Diana, on having this explained to her: "Praying. Don't be absurd. Evelyn simply doesn't pray. And even if he did no one would mention it." Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People—young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians—as well as society in general, in the interwar era. The next paragraph of this text is fairly densely written. Why? Because whatever else this is, it's genuine biographical research and has to take on the complexities of life.It's been suggested in the Waugh literature that the character Agatha Runcible, is in part a portrait of the Bright Young Thing, Elizabeth Ponsonby. There is probably something in this, but in chapter ten, Evelyn is surely thinking of She-Evelyn, the woman who has just deserted him, notwithstanding that she is already well and truly embedded in the book as Nina. At the end of the Vile Bodies ms, Waugh wrote: 'THE END THANK GOD,' as he did at the end of his first book, Rossetti .