by Evelyn Waugh · El País · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152456
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«Elena» is the historical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published by El País in paperback (174 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Helena from her childhood in Britannia to her pilgrimage to Palestine, where she directs excavations that find remains of the cross of Christ. Evelyn Waugh combines the psychology of this woman of firm convictions, mother of Constantine the Great, with the crisis of the Roman Empire and the contradictions of the West.
The novel, originally published as «Helena» in 1950, appeared in 2005 in the El País historical novel collection, number 41.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the late Roman Empire, early Christianity and the figure of Constantine the Great.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
