/lit/ - Literature

>Evelyn Waugh understands that if a writer is to develop, he “must concern himself more and more with Style.” By approaching words with the attention and craft of a tailor, the literary artist not only communicates but also gives pleasure to others.

To what extent do you think about style in your own writing?

- why is he never discussed on here? He's one of the best prose writers of the 20th century in English. What is /lit/'s opinion on him/his work?

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John Stuart Mill
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Percy Shelley
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
William Blake
William Shakespeare
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Gaskell
Oscar Wilde
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Dryden
John Donne
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Orwell
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Aphra Behn
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Zadie Smith
Christopher Hitchens
Salman Rushdie
Doris Lessing
Kazuo Ishiguro
J. R. R. Tolkien
E. M. Forster
G. K. Chesterton
Virginia Woolf
Henry James
William James
Francis Bacon
John Locke
Edmund Burke
Jeremy Bentham
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Johnson
Ben Johnson
James Boswell
Sir Walter Scott
Anthony Trollope
Philippa Foot
Thomas Hobbes
C. S. Lewis
Derek Parfit
Henry Sidgwick
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Gissing
Ford Maddox Ford
Bertrand Russell
D. H. Lawrence
Aldous Huxley
Malcolm Lowry
Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh

What does /lit/ think of Evelyn Waugh?

Explain to me why I should read any novel written after 1960 right now.

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>that deathbed conversion scene at the end of brideshead

alright I admit it hit me pretty hard at the time but what the fuck was this nigger trying to prove exactly

>Waugh had welcomed the accession in 1958 of Pope John XXIII[169] and wrote an appreciative tribute on the pope's death in 1963.[170] However, he became increasingly concerned by the decisions emerging from the Second Vatican Council, which was convened by Pope John in October 1962 and continued under his successor, Pope Paul VI until 1965. Waugh, a staunch opponent of Church reform, was particularly distressed by the replacement of the universal Latin Mass with the vernacular.[171] In a Spectator article of 23 November 1962, he argued the case against change in a manner described by a later commentator as "sharp-edged reasonableness".[172][173] He wrote to Nancy Mitford that "the buggering up of the Church is a deep sorrow to me.... We write letters to the paper. A fat lot of good that does."[174]

>In the summer of 1925, Waugh's outlook briefly improved, with the prospect of a job in Pisa, Italy, as secretary to the Scottish writer Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, who was engaged on the English translations of Marcel Proust's works. Believing that the job was his, Waugh resigned his position at Arnold House. He had meantime sent the early chapters of his novel to Acton for assessment and criticism. Acton's reply was so coolly dismissive that Waugh immediately burnt his manuscript; shortly afterwards, before he left North Wales, he learned that the Moncrieff job had fallen through.[50] The twin blows were sufficient for him to consider suicide. He records that he went down to a nearby beach and, leaving a note with his clothes, walked out to sea. An attack by jellyfish changed his mind, and he returned quickly to the shore.[51]

Will we ever have a man who tells stories as meaningful and relatable as Evelyn Waugh?