Thursday, May 25, 2017

Satirical leveling …

… Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Decline and Fall’: British TV Series Captures the Book’s Comedy | National Review.  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



The TV adaptation gets Waugh’s humor exactly right: pugnacious and genteel, shocking yet understated, viciously deadpan, awash with fondness and cruelty.


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