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The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery. 'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors.
On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts.
But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . .
Rok vydania:
2015Počet strán:
144Nedostupnost licencie eknihy:
2025-02-23 16:00Jazyk: angličtina
