Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John

Japanese: ウォー（英語表記）Waugh， Evelyn Arthur St. John

Born: October 28, 1903, London
[died] 10 April 1966. Combe Flory, Somerset. British novelist. Studied at Oxford University, his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928), won him acclaim. Converted to Catholicism in 1930, and published Vile Bodies in the same year. In 1932, he wrote Black Mischief, a satirical caricature set in the fictional African country of Azania, depicting conflicts between the natives and the ridiculousness of white diplomats. It was inspired by his travels to Ethiopia and other places as a correspondent for The Times. In A Handful of Dust (34), he caricatures the disintegration of the life of an upper-class couple living in an old country house, and in his magnum opus, Brideshead Revisited (45), he tells the story of the decline of an upper-class Catholic family through the recollections of an officer, and also tackles issues such as the Catholic way of life and the rationalism of intellectuals. "The Loved One" (48) depicts the state of an American funeral director, satirizing the uniformity of American civilization and displaying his unique black humor. He served in World War II and wrote the military trilogy "Sword of Honour" (52-61).

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Waugh, Arthur

[Born] 1886
[Died] 1943
British critic. President of Chapman & Hall booksellers. Father of E. Waugh.

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[生]1903.10.28. ロンドン
[没]1966.4.10. サマセット，クームフローリー
イギリスの小説家。オックスフォード大学に学び，最初の小説『衰亡』 Decline and Fall (1928) で認められた。 1930年にカトリックに改宗，同年『汚れた肉体』 Vile Bodiesを出版。 32年の『黒いいたずら』 Black Mischiefは，アフリカの架空の国アザニアを舞台に先住民の対立や白人外交官の滑稽さを描くカリカチュアと風刺の小説で，『タイムズ』紙特派員としてエチオピアなどを旅行した経験を生かしたもの。『一握の塵』A Handful of Dust (34) では，田舎の古い屋敷に住む上流階級の夫婦の生活が崩壊するさまを戯画的に描き，大作『ブライズヘッド再訪』 Brideshead Revisited (45) もカトリックの上流家庭の衰亡を，一将校の回想によって物語るという小説で，カトリック的生き方，知識人の合理主義などの問題も取上げている。『愛された人』 The Loved One (48) はアメリカの葬儀屋のありさまを描いて，アメリカ文明の画一主義を風刺し，独特のブラック・ユーモアをみせている。第2次世界大戦に従軍，軍隊3部作『名誉の剣』 Sword of Honour (52～61) がある。