10/26/2022 0 Comments Regina exlibris![]() ![]() ![]() He finds himself in a London reduced to ruins, where the vegetation has now taken over and the population is forced to live in straw huts and mud, practicing agriculture and fishing. he recalls how a middle-aged American, Rip Van Winkle, after having met a mysterious magician, is thrown forward in time by five centuries. The same satirical and grotesque coloring comes back in two dystopian tales written by Evelyn Waugh. In addition, he discusses two dystopian works by Evelyn Waugh: O’Brien published between 19 and Park: A Fantastic Story (1932) by poet John Gray. Also mentioned are the Father Elijah novels by Canadian Michael D. In Italian, Luca Fumagalli has posted on Radio Spada an article about Roman Catholic dystopian novels ( “Dark prophecies and terrible futures in Catholic fiction”). These include well known examples such as R H Benson’s The Lord of the World (1907) and The Dawn of All (1911) as well as G K Chesterton’s The Flying Inn (1914, in Italian, L’osteria volante). But here he raises a wonderful comedy of entanglements, in which a tabloid mistakenly sends to cover a war in a remote country a columnist of botanical issues. …in Noticia Bomba! Waugh distills all his wit and talent for satire with a hilarious story that pulverizes the sound of the press and the war correspondents… and he knows about the subject, because he was a war correspondent. In Spanish, the books blog entitled “Regina ExLibris” vigorously recommends Waugh’s novel Scoop (in Spanish Noticia Bomba!): Works by Evelyn Waugh feature prominently in articles on two foreign language weblogs. ![]()
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