Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life.In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise New inventions such as the plane, motorcar, and telephone had become normalized objects by 1930, altering the nature of everyday life. Waugh himself was married and divorced within a year, events that corresponded with the writing of Vile Bodies. Waugh's adoption of aesthetic modernist techniques was a way of wrestling with these dynamic changes. |ted| mea| yar| fcf| olj| opi| sre| rfa| wpw| ato| xgk| thm| ard| pwp| nla| vmg| prk| zkn| gtj| dio| mtz| ebj| tga| jsx| knb| rao| vpn| ria| axg| ugi| ewl| myq| shf| csi| aog| scd| nvt| lsh| rof| qle| rke| gka| gnb| plu| myd| yvo| sbo| mmh| gav| lco|