The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
Waugh's intermittent diaries, edited by Michael Davie: the drinking, the feuds, and life being turned into art.
Waugh kept a diary intermittently from schooldays until shortly before his death, and Michael Davie’s edition prints it with the names restored. It records the drinking, the feuds, the Catholicism and the social climbing, and shows the raw material of the novels being observed before it was used.
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Timothy Garton Ash
I think Evelyn Waugh is one of the great English novelists of the 20th century and he kept this diary intermittently. A lot of it is about the absolutely amazing quantities that he drank. He started quite early in the day. It’s a document of its time. It’s full of hugely politically incorrect and, by the end, almost self-parodic episodes but it’s also brilliant at catching the moment that life is turned into art.
Interview · April 2011
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