Put Out More Flags
Waugh's comedy of the phoney war, following Basil Seal through the first months of the conflict.
Waugh’s comedy of the phoney war follows Basil Seal through the first months of the conflict, as evacuees are billeted on the unwilling, ministries multiply and everyone finds a way to profit. Published in 1942 and dedicated to Randolph Churchill, it revisits characters from the earlier novels and is the last of his books written in the pre-war comic manner.
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P. J. O’Rourke
Waugh was sent to cover the coronation of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia and from that he spun three novels: Black Mischief, Scoop and Put Out More Flags. I suppose Put Out More Flags is the least known of his comic novels. There’s A Handful of Dust and…they’re like the Seven Dwarfs, I can never name all of them. The satire of Black Mischief involves a primitive society getting all sorts of modern ideas.
Interview · November 2010
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