Why does everyone except me find it so easy to be nice?

Фрэнсис открыл дверь, улыбнулся и объявил: «Портрет готов! Усаживайтесь вон в то кресло и взгляните на него».
Передо мной была огромная газетная карикатура (правда, раскрашенная), изображавшая совершенно лысого, мерзостно дряхлого — мало того, выжившего из ума бизнесмена. Лицо было даже и не лицо, а невесть что: безобразно расплывшееся, как у человека, который страдает синдромом слоновости, распухшее, больше похожее на груду кусков сырого мяса и ошметков жира. Нос, точно полип, тянул щупальца во все стороны, но его основная часть припала к щеке. Рот походил на набрякший фурункул, который вот-вот лопнет. Сцепленные пальцы изображались изумрудно-зелеными штрихами — настоящие когти. Тело и руки были прописаны четкими сухими мазками, в иной технике, чем голова — сырая, смазанная. Голова и плечи были обведены неровным контуром из какой-то влажной слизи. Фрэнсис заявил, что если мне не нравится, я не обязан покупать. Я ушел раздавленный, ноги подкашивались, было чувство, будто я потерял нечто важное. (По просьбе Битона, художник уничтожил портрет. Осталась фотография Сесила Битона, который снял Бэкона во время работы над несохранившимся полотном. — Esquire).
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Alexander Waugh, grandson of Evelyn and son of Auberon, will give a public lecture, A Word or Two About Evelyn Waugh, at 7 p.m. tomorrow, March 19, at Durham University. Additional details at the link above. Audio recordings of past … Continue reading



@темы: Alexander Waugh, Events, Lectures, Durham University, Academia

Standpoint magazine has now published a review of the collected letters of Hugh Trevor- Roper which it had earlier excerpted. In the review, Paul Johnson, friend (or at least acquaintance) of Evelyn Waugh and fellow Roman Catholic, mentions HTR’s rather … Continue reading



@темы: Paul Johnson, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Birkenhead, Articles, Miscellaneous

A list of singer/songwriter David Bowie’s 100 favorite books includes Evelyn Waugh’s 1930 novel Vile Bodies. The list appears in an Independent newspaper article that was published in conjunction with an exhibit “David Bowie Is” at the Victoria & Albert museum. The exhibit ran for several … Continue reading



@темы: George Orwell, Vile Bodies, 1984, Independent newspaper, Victoria & Albert museum, David Bowie, Miscellaneous

The Tablet and The Catholic Herald have made available online and searchable their archives of past issues. The Spectator did this last year, benefiting greatly Evelyn Waugh enthusiasts and also admirers of the work of his son Auberon, a fixture … Continue reading



@темы: Tablet, Spectator, Auberon Waugh, Catholic Herald

In a new BBC Four series that started Sunday night, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry, art historian and critic Jonathan Meades cites Evelyn Waugh as one of the leaders of the movement to preserve the Victorian heritage in art … Continue reading



@темы: BBC, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Television Programs, Brutalism, Jonathan Meades, Victorian Society

Why does everyone except me find it so easy to be nice?
13.02.2014 в 17:49
Пишет  tes3m:
Шаржи Дэвида Левина - 2


Ивлин Во.
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Пишет  tes3m:
13.02.2014 в 18:18

mr waugh, Конечно.)) У Левина и еще есть Во.


Но пока искала эти, нашла еще одного, который мне так понравился, что добавлю его в пост.

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From the announcement by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford: Applicants are sought for a three year, fully funded Studentship (including both fees and living costs) to work towards a DPhil (PhD) in the Faculty of English, University of … Continue reading



@темы: David Bradshaw, Complete Works, AHRC, Academia, Oxford University, Research

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BBC Radio 4

Jeremy Front’s dramatization of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, broadcast in seven episodes on BBC Radio 4 last year, won Best Audio Drama (Adaptation) at the 2014 BBC Radio Drama Awards held yesterday in London.



@темы: BBC, Sword of Honour, Events, Radio, Radio 4, Radio Programs, Jeremy Front, Radio Drama Awards

A new blog, Waugh and Words, created by Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project at the University of Leicester, features an essay by research associate Barbara Cooke in which she describes her first visit to Alexander Waugh’s home and reflects … Continue reading



@темы: Alexander Waugh, Letters, Nancy Mitford, The Loved One, Complete Works, University of Leicester, Barbara Cooke, Waugh and Words

The Huntington Library in San Marino, California (12 miles west of Los Angeles) has announced the acquisition of a major collection of rare editions and manuscripts of Evelyn Waugh. The collection, consisting of some 250 books and 135 letters and … Continue reading



@темы: Letters, Diana Cooper, Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, First Editions, Anthony Powell, The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Manuscripts, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Harry Ransom Center, Huntington Library, Loren and Frances Rothschild, Ninety-Two Days, Pope John XXIII

Alexander Chancellor tries Waugh’s notorious ear trumpet, and is impressed: On Christmas Day, in the Somerset home of my daughter Eliza, and her husband, Alexander Waugh, Evelyn’s grandson, I was offered the novelist’s old ear trumpet to try. I am … Continue reading



@темы: Alexander Waugh, Sightings, Chattels & Movables, Spectator, Alexander Chancellor, ear trumpet

In 1959 Malcolm Muggeridge reviewed Frederick J. Stopp’s biography of Evelyn Waugh for the New Republic and described his own slight acquaintance with its subject: The last time I saw him was at a wedding. I am no expert on … Continue reading



@темы: Books about Evelyn Waugh, Biographies, Frederick J. Stopp, Malcolm Muggeridge, New Republic, Articles

Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard died earlier this month in Suffolk. She was the last person to conduct a broadcast interview of Evelyn Waugh. This was for the BBC Monitor documentary series and was transmitted in February 1964. According to her memoirs, … Continue reading



@темы: Slipstream, BBC, Letters, Television, Monitor, Television Programs, Face to Face, All Change, Christopher Burstall, Elizabeth jane Howard, Martin Amis, The Cazalet Chonicles, Miscellaneous, Interviews

The current issue of Standpoint reprints a 1986 letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper in which he attempts to explain why he and Evelyn Waugh were not, to put it mildly, close chums. HTR (1914-2003) was an academic who first came to … Continue reading



@темы: Letters, Sightings, Catholicism, Farm Street Church, Frank Pakenham, Graham Green, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Martin D'Arcy, New Statesman, Vatican II

The long-awaited publication of a book about Waugh’s experience in Hollywood has recently been announced. This is Lisa Colletta’s British Novelists in Hollywood 1935-1965: Travelers, Exiles, and Expats published last month by Palgrave Macmillan in both the US and the UK. … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Books about Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Waugh Centenary Conference, Miscellaneous

In April 1962 Julian Jebb interviewed Evelyn Waugh for the Paris Review: He showed me into a comfortable, soberly furnished room, with a fine view over the trees across Hyde Park. As he moved about the room he repeated twice … Continue reading



@темы: London, Evelyn Waugh, Paris Review, 1962, Interviews

The deadline for the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest is Dec. 31. Essays by undergraduates on any aspect of the life or work of Evelyn Waugh are solicited for the contest, which will be judged by the editorial board of … Continue reading



@темы: Essays, Undergraduate Essay Contest, Evelyn Waugh Studies

A recent episode of the BBC’s series The Culture Show (November 6, 2013), entitled Wars of the Heart, dealt with the experience of several writers during the Blitz. The presenter was James Runcie. The primary focus was on Graham Greene … Continue reading



@темы: BBC, Diaries, London, Documentaries, Sightings, World War II, The Culture Show, Television Programs, Graham Greene, Henry Yorke, James Runcie, Lara Feigel, The Love-Charm of Bombs, Wars of the Heart

13:43

Eat be poor and be satisfied, and praise the Lord, and those who seek the dancers, their hearts shall live forever.
Знаете, а ведь это ещё не всё.

На нашей улице перевернулся грузовик с фотокарточками. Мне не хватает слов от умиления, поэтому я вам просто покажу две превьюшки











Когда-нибудь потом покажем их в хорошем качестве, а пока можно сходить сюда, и посмотреть на ещё одну семейную фотографию и приятного Обрина.


Upd: Эти фотографии так до меня никогда и не доехали, зато появились в интернетах в нормальном качестве, так что заменяю превью в посте на нормальные изображения.


@темы: фотографии, margaret, auberon, combe florey, laura