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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

“All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro The Loved One

First lines
The Loved One (1948)

“Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.”

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Reviewing World within World, the autobiography of Stephen Spender, in The Tablet (5 May 1951)

“Chokey thinks religion is just divine.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Black Mischief

Fonte: Black Mischief (1932), Chapter 5

“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Put Out More Flags

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

“…Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Part 1, Chapter 2
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro A Little Learning

First lines
A Little Learning (1964)

“We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is pretty bad…”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Part One, Chapter One
Decline and Fall (1928)

“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Scoop

Scoop (1938)

“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte in The Vocation of Man [Die Bestimmung des Menschen] (1800), p. 94 : "You are here, not for idle contemplation of yourself, not for brooding over devout sensations — no, for action you are here; action, and action alone, determines your worth." [Nicht zum müßigen Beschauen und Betrachten deiner selbst, oder zum Brüten über andächtigen Empfindungen, — nein, zum Handeln bist du da; dein Handeln und allein dein Handeln bestimmt deinen Werth.]
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“The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," he said. "Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Scoop

A quote from Lord Copper.
Scoop (1938)

“"We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim…" Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Black Mischief

First lines
Black Mischief (1932)

“When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

First lines of Prologue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”

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Fonte: Diary entry (March 1964), after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill, quoted in The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1976), p. 792

“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Epilogue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Brideshead Revisited

Part 3, chapter 5, Lord Marchmain's dying soliloquy.
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.”

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The Tablet (9 May 1951)

“Up to a point, Lord Copper.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Scoop

Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast is a man to whom one never says 'No' directly. This is what one says instead.
Scoop (1938)

“So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Put Out More Flags

Fonte: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 3 : Spring

“What is this impulse of two people to build their beastly home? It's you & me, unborn, asserting our presence. All we are is a manifestation of the impulse to family life, and if by chance we have escaped the itch ourselves, Nature forces it upon us another way.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Part One, Chapter XII
Decline and Fall (1928)

“I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim...”

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Evelyn Waugh livro Black Mischief

Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."
First lines
Black Mischief (1932)

“I have become very old in the last two years. Not diseased but enfeebled. There is nowhere I want to go and nothing I want to do and I am conscious of being an utter bore. The Vatican Council has knocked the guts out of me.”

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Letter to Lady Mosley (9 March 1966), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 638

“I find the new liturgy a temptation against Faith, Hope and Charity but I shall never, pray God, apostatise.”

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Letter to Monsignor McReavy (15 April 1965), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 631