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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh foi um escritor britânico conhecido sobretudo pela sua obra Reviver o Passado em Brideshead que deu origem à aclamada série de televisão homônima produzida pela Granada Television. Não obstante, nos meios literários, ele é considerado um dos maiores satiristas ingleses do século XX. O clã Waugh tem uma vasta tradição literária. Somando a obra de filhos, netos e bisnetos do editor Arthur Waugh – pai de Evelyn –, chega-se a cerca de 180 livros. Evelyn é a estrela mais brilhante dessa constelação familiar. Mas seu próprio pai não o reconhecia como tal: o filho preferido era Alec, o mais velho. Escritor de sucesso em sua época, Alec caiu no esquecimento. Evelyn, ao contrário, ainda é uma influência vibrante na literatura inglesa – basta lembrar o romance vencedor do prêmio Booker Prize de 2004, A Linha da Beleza, de Alan Hollinghurst, uma clara revisão de Memórias de Brideshead, um dos romances mais célebres de Waugh . As relações de pai e filho dos Waughs – desveladas em detalhe no recente Fathers and Sons, "autobiografia familiar" de Alexander Waugh, neto de Evelyn – dariam matéria para muita especulação psicanalítica. O próprio Evelyn, que teve sete filhos, era um pai odioso. Apelidou uma filha obesa de "leitoa" e não escondia seu desapreço por crianças. [carece de fontes?] "São adultos defeituosos", definiu. [carece de fontes?]Waugh foi um jovem perdido. Tentou a vida como professor, mas não conseguia segurar um emprego por muito tempo. Bebia muito gim e tinha ímpetos autodestrutivos. Em 1925, determinado a se matar por afogamento, nadou mar adentro em uma praia do País de Gales – mas desistiu do suicídio ao ser queimado por uma água-viva. Foi salvo pela literatura e pelo catolicismo, ao qual se converteu em 1930, depois de se divorciar da primeira mulher. Na II Guerra, lutou em Creta e na Iugoslávia, experiência fundamental para a composição de A Espada de Honra. Na contramão do esquerdismo que dominou a vida cultural britânica no pós-guerra, Waugh cultivou a imagem pública de um reacionário raivoso .

A fama de esnobe também se colou ao autor, por causa da crônica detalhada que ele faz da aristocracia inglesa em romances como Um Punhado de Pó e Memórias de Brideshead. Waugh aceitou o rótulo com alguma reticência. Em 1947, em uma carta a uma revista irlandesa que o criticara, ele observava que o esnobismo não é necessariamente contrário à caridade, virtude que, como católico, ele prezava. O fato, porém, é que essa é uma imputação tola: os aristocratas não são tratados com deferência na ficção de Waugh. Guy Crouchback, protagonista da trilogia A Espada de Honra, é exemplar nesse sentido: divorciado e sem filhos, ele é o fim de uma linhagem nobre tão antiga quanto decadente . Com a cabeça cheia de ideais cavalheirescos, ele se alista nas Forças Armadas para lutar contra o nazismo, embora, com 35 anos, já esteja passando da idade própria para o campo de batalha. Ao longo dos três volumes da série, Guy fatalmente se desilude com a vida militar. O próprio catolicismo nem sempre é apresentado sob uma luz favorável – padres venais aparecem como personagens secundários da trama. Waugh parecia acreditar que a fé católica sobrevivia às falhas de seus representantes. Seu método literário era submeter todos os valores às rasteiras da ironia. O que parasse de pé mereceria respeito. [carece de fontes?] Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Outubro 1903 – 10. Abril 1966   •   Outros nomes Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh frases e citações

“Pontualidade é a virtude do chato.”

Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
citado em "Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" (1976).

De idade

“Nunca entendi como dois homens podem ser juntar para escrever um livro. Para mim, é como precisar de três pessoas para produzir um filho.”

Evelyn Waugh
De livros , De pessoas , De homens

Evelyn Waugh: Frases em inglês

“…But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Part 3, near end of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust."French, eh?" he said. "I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just you wait while I look up these here books"—how he said it!—"in my list. Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Vile Bodies

Fonte: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 2

“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Part 1, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“It's the seed of life we carry about with us like our skeletons, each one of us unconsciously pregnant with desirable villa residences. There's no escape. As individuals we simply do not exist. We are just potential home builders, beavers, and ants. How do we come into being? What is birth?”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Part One, Chapter XII
Decline and Fall (1928)

“It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Put Out More Flags

Fonte: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1: Autumn, § 7

“I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“And the only interest about him arises from the unusual series of events of which his shadow was witness.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“She seemed to say "Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?"”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Part 3, Chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“I put the words down and push them a bit.”

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Evelyn Waugh

As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)

“perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Author's note
Decline and Fall (1928)

“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.”

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Evelyn Waugh

As quoted in LIFE magazine (8 April 1946)

“There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.”

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Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

“Lord Copper quite often gave banquets; it would be an understatement to say that no one enjoyed them more than the host, for no one else enjoyed them at all, while Lord Copper positively exulted in every minute.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Scoop

Scoop (1938)

“Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.”

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Letter to Nancy Mitford, May 5, 1954, cited from Mark Amory (ed.) The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 423
"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable" is sometimes attributed to Lord Chesterfield (British statesman, diplomat and wit, 1694-1773), but has not been found in his works.

“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“We possess nothing certainly except the past.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Part 3, start of chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Scoop

An oft-quoted example of William Boot's style. When first mentioned in the novel it is "splashy" and not "plashy", but this is a remembrance of another journalist; when Boot himself quotes it, he has "plashy".
Scoop (1938)

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Fonte: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1

“I couldn't understand why God had made the world at all…' I asked my bishop; he didn't know. He said that he didn't think the point arose as far as my practical duties as a parish priest were concerned..”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Mr Prendergast, Part One , Chapter IV
Decline and Fall (1928)

“They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Vile Bodies

Fonte: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Grimes
Decline and Fall (1928)

“While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters."”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Scoop

Opening lines
Scoop (1938)

“I had warned my father that my viva might mean a second. It meant a third, and I was overcome with regret, not, I am ashamed to say, for the giddy nights, but for the sober ones. I had not done much work, but I had done some. Had I known I was only to get a third I would not have wasted my time.”

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"Is Oxford Worth the Money?", Sunday Dispatch, 10 July 1938, page 12. Quoted in "The Sayings of Evelyn Waugh", edited by Donat Gallagher, Duckworth Sayings Series