He found cruel things funny because he did not understand them, and he was able to communicate that fun.” Later, Waugh’s comic vision would mature and darken into books such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy.
As Cyril Connolly wrote in Enemies of Promise: “The satire of Evelyn Waugh in his early books was derived from his ignorance of life.
Actually, in its combination of farce and pathos, Scoop derives less inspiration from Ethiopia than from the world of Waugh’s brilliant early fiction such as Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies.īut there is a difference. Also, more books by Chapman & Hall here.It was Waugh’s experiences in Ethiopia, during the Abyssinian crisis of 1935-36, that provided the raw material for a wicked romp through the more absurd byways of Fleet Street in the 1930s. So begins Scoop, Waugh's exuberant comedy of mistaken identity and brilliantly irreverent satire of the hectic pursuit of hot news. Algernon Stitch, Lord Copper feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. So Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. The book's original owner was Pamela Chichester from whom Waugh derived the term 'Mrs Chichesterese' as a general way of speaking observed in Henry green's work (letters p.328). It has also benefited from some professional restoration to spine and edges.
The jacket is 1st state with 'Daily Beast' on the front panel. There is a mark to the front endpage, no other internal markings. Flat signed by Evelyn Waugh to title page. First impression from 1938 in near fine condition.
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