Decades ago, I watched the wonderful PBS adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, one of Waugh’s best-known, and best, novels. I found myself equally enthralled by the original book. As the book opens, we are in the waning days of WWII. Charles Ryder’s unit has arrived at unknown destination for training, which turns out to be the grand house of Brideshead, where Charles spent an enchanted time between the wars. This casts him back into the past. Meeting the flamboyant Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, Charles was immediately drawn to him, but Sebastian warns him not “to get involved with my family.” This turns out to be impossible. A coming of age story, a religious conversion story, and a very human story. 432 pp.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Brideshead revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Decades ago, I watched the wonderful PBS adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, one of Waugh’s best-known, and best, novels. I found myself equally enthralled by the original book. As the book opens, we are in the waning days of WWII. Charles Ryder’s unit has arrived at unknown destination for training, which turns out to be the grand house of Brideshead, where Charles spent an enchanted time between the wars. This casts him back into the past. Meeting the flamboyant Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, Charles was immediately drawn to him, but Sebastian warns him not “to get involved with my family.” This turns out to be impossible. A coming of age story, a religious conversion story, and a very human story. 432 pp.
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