by Evelyn Waugh · Impedimenta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419581990
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A farce with echoes of classical tragedy. A fierce and elegantly cruel portrait of a society in decline, a masterful blend of sarcasm, melancholy, and narrative brutality, where every line reveals itself as a poisoned dart. Tony Last has always lived in the countryside, in love with Hetton Abbey, his family's ancestral mansion. His life proceeds peacefully until his wife, Lady Brenda Last, obsessed with social reputation, begins an affair that triggers the family's downfall. Resigned to divorce, Tony joins an expedition in search of a lost city in the Brazilian jungle, where he encounters misfortune. This work is a stark satire of the decadent British aristocracy of the interwar period and a masterpiece of 20th-century English narrative.
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.
