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"O Bright Young People!"
Fitts, Dudley | May 21, 1930 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Vile Bodies," by author Evelyn Waugh. As a satire this book is no less a failure. First of all, Waugh displays none of the elan that distinguishes the true satirist from the caricaturist. For all its brilliance the writing lacks vitality. The invention is tired, and effects are too often got by recourse to the devices of slapstick exaggeration. Again, the satire is self-conscious satire, which destroys itself. If Waugh had not tried to do so much, if he had been content to amuse, without attempting to devastate, if he had been content to laugh, without essaying a prophetic sneer at the same time, his book would be diverting in a cockeyed sort of way.

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LITERATURE; AUTHORS; WAUGH, Evelyn; AUTHORSHIP; SATIRE; CARICATURE
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