Evelyn Waugh captures the futility of the Bright Young Things in Vile Bodies
This satire of the Bright Young Things is Waugh’s best — even though nothing happens| www.thetimes.com
This satire of the Bright Young Things is Waugh’s best — even though nothing happens| www.thetimes.com
The daring dandy painter loathed talking about art, which he called ‘fart’, and was part of the Bright Young Things with Evelyn Waugh| www.thetimes.com
Let's see if I can recall Evelyn Waugh's 1957 and 1958 without looking up the facts. At the beginning of 1957, Waugh chose to forego his winter trip to the sun in order to be with cancer-stricken Ronald Knox in the south of England. By August of that year, Knox had died and Evelyn had resolved to write his biography without delay, even though there would be little money in it. So he got on with the Oxford episodes of that enterprise, but by February 1958 it made sense that he make a visit to ...| .................EVELYN WAUGH
