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Carregando... Brideshead Revisited (1945)de Evelyn Waugh
  
» 60 mais BBC Big Read (48) Unread books (69) Best family sagas (17) 1940s (15) 501 Must-Read Books (164) 20th Century Literature (161) Sense of place (1) A Novel Cure (62) BBC Big Read (27) Folio Society (139) Metafiction (35) Books Read in 2016 (1,348) Books Read in 2013 (273) Books Read in 2015 (1,249) Elegant Prose (16) United Kingdom (39) Movie Adaptations (49) Books Read in 2018 (3,496) Ambleside Books (316) The Greatest Books (69) My favourite books (33) Academia in Fiction (63) Books tagged favorites (289) BBC Top Books (61) Tagged 20th Century (20) Fiction For Men (95) Best Friendship Stories (109) Best Family Stories (81) Best School Stories (21) War Literature (76) Didactic Fiction (16) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I must have read the book four or five times. I always think it starts brilliantly then Peter’s out as the religion takes hold. Sebastian’s fall from charm charming to religious alcoholic seems triggered by nothing doesn’t ring true. Nevertheless I love it. (  ) mumoftheanimals | Feb 27, 2021 |  The recklessness of youth is idyllic in Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. I missed my university years. Its nonbeliever narrator, Charles Ryder, develops a toxic platonic relationship brushing on homosexuality with the rich yet immature Sebastian Flyte. Finding himself deeply fascinated and infatuated with Sebastian and then his family and odd friends, whilst also mesmerised by the promise of high society lifestyle, Charles willingly becomes a fly on their web of sinful affairs and hypocritical dramas. It's a sure ingredient for disaster. In the process he turns himself into one of them, his agnosticism remaining intact, until a series of tragedy hits the Flyte family. What follows is years of estrangement, dysfunctional relationships, uncomfortable religious debates, and the onset of war inevitably shattering this idyllic era of youth and taste of aristocracy. Everything changes, everyone ages. Eventually, this romanticisation and disillusioned perspective of easy living becomes a blurry image. And whilst war is senseless and bad it strips everyone off bare. Again, everything changes, ages...Waugh flings all his characters into its wreckage amidst everything being wrecked all along. "Then again I asked him: 'Supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said "It's going to rain", would that be bound to happen?' 'Oh, yes, Father.' 'But supposing it didn't?' He thought a moment and said, 'I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it.'" However frustrating this novel could be, it is a nicely weaved story founded on a religion's horrifying influence in each decision, behaviour, and result. It largely uses Catholic guilt; the same guilt that stifles freedom and freewill. So none of the characters are truly happy unless they surround themselves with nostalgia and sentimental dreaming ** "Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all." (p362). This is a very sad novel about unlikable, sad people doing unlikable, sad (and bad) things. It's quite difficult to eradicate out of your system after. And it makes one revisit their own, personal Brideshead for better or for worse. "If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be." (  ) lethalmauve | Jan 25, 2021 | I seem to be making a habit of reading books that are much-loved by many people and not really liking them very much (the books, not the people). I was quite disappointed with this novel. The writing is, in places, lovely, but there was never a phrase or a paragraph that made me stop and read it again just for the sheer enjoyment of the words. I never connected with any of the characters - I'm not sure how anyone could, really, as theyre all so insipid and up their own backsides and one-dimensional. The plot - is there a plot? It just seems to ramble. Lots of reviews seem to talk of the big ideas that this is supposedly about, but there doesn't seem to be much agreement among those reviews on what those ideas actually are, and I have to say I didn't see much of any of them in the book. I read it on a recommendation from someone who has read it several times and watched the movie/tv series several times; in discussion with that someone afterwards, I was frustrated by the vagueness of his response to "what is it about it that you love?" and "why do you love it?" - and the clearest, most credible basis for his affection for it turned out to be that he had the hots for one of the actors in the tv series, which makes me wonder how much the dramatisations are responsible for the book's fanboys/girls. I've never seen a dramatisation of it; maybe I should, and maybe then I'd get it. (  ) DebsDd | Jan 18, 2021 | Full of beautiful language and perfectly precise details, the story and characters (both major and minor) of Brideshead Revisited come convincingly to life in this great read. The story is set among the aristocratic English Catholic Flyte family (Lord and Lady Marchmain and their children), and is narrated by Charles Ryder, who as a student at Oxford befriends Sebastian, the troubled youngest son of the family. Charles becomes drawn first into Sebastian's life and then into the lives of the rest of the Flyte family. Written as a remembered past brought to the surface as Charles, now an army officer, is billeted at the Marchmains family home, Brideshead, the story reflects a nostalgia for an earlier time and place. The Marchmains are a flawed but deeply Roman-Catholic family, and Charles's observations and interactions with them open up a different world of society and religion that are very than where he came from. (  ) SteveKey | Jan 8, 2021 | One of my favourite books of all times. And included the television series. ( ) Jannemangan | Nov 28, 2020 |
 Evelyn Waugh was a marvellous writer, but one of a sort peculiarly likely to write a bad book at any moment. The worst of his, worse even than The Loved One, must be Brideshead Revisited. But long before the Granada TV serial came along it was his most enduringly popular novel; the current Penguin reprint is the nineteenth in its line. The chief reason for this success is obviously and simply that here we have a whacking, heavily romantic book about nobs... It is as if Evelyn Waugh came to believe that since about all he looked for in his companions was wealth, rank, Roman Catholicism (where possible) and beauty (where appropriate), those same attributes and no more would be sufficient for the central characters in a long novel, enough or getting on for enough, granted a bit of style thrown in, to establish them as both glamorous and morally significant. That last blurring produced a book I would rather expect a conscientious Catholic to find repulsive, but such matters are none of my concern. Certainly the author treats those characters with an almost cringing respect, implying throughout that they are important and interesting in some way over and above what we are shown of them.  Brideshead Revisited fulfils the quest for certainty, though the image of a Catholic aristocracy, with its penumbra of a remote besieged chivalry, a secular hierarchy threatened by the dirty world but proudly falling back on a prepared eschatological position, has seemed over-romantic, even sentimental, to non-Catholic readers. It remains a soldier's dream, a consolation of drab days and a deprived palate, disturbingly sensuous, even slavering with gulosity, as though God were somehow made manifest in the haute cuisine. The Puritan that lurks in every English Catholic was responsible for the later redaction of the book, the pruning of the poetry of self-indulgence. Snobbery is the charge most often levelled against Brideshead; and, at first glance, it is also the least damaging. Modern critics have by now accused practically every pre-modern novelist of pacifism, or collaboration, in the class war. Such objections are often simply anachronistic, telling us more about present-day liberal anxieties than about anything else. But this line won’t quite work for Brideshead, which squarely identifies egalitarianism as its foe and proceeds to rubbish it accordingly... ‘I have been here before’: the opening refrain is from Rossetti, and much of the novel reads like a golden treasury of neo-classical clichés: phantoms, soft airs, enchanted gardens, winged hosts – the liturgical rhythms, the epic similes, the wooziness. Waugh’s conversion was a temporary one, and never again did he attempt the grand style. Certainly the prose sits oddly with the coldness and contempt at the heart of the novel, and contributes crucially to its central imbalance. "Lush and evocative ... the one Waugh which best expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit." The new novel by Evelyn Waugh—Brideshead Revisited—has been a bitter blow to this critic. I have admired and praised Mr. Waugh, and when I began reading Brideshead Revisited, I was excited at finding that he had broken away from the comic vein for which he is famous and expanded into a new dimension... But this enthusiasm is to be cruelly disappointed. What happens when Evelyn Waugh abandons his comic convention—as fundamental to his previous work as that of any Restoration dramatist—turns out to be more or less disastrous... For Waugh’s snobbery, hitherto held in check by his satirical point of view, has here emerged shameless and rampant... In the meantime, I predict that Brideshead Revisited will prove to be the most successful, the only extremely successful, book that Evelyn Waugh has written, and that it will soon be up in the best-seller list somewhere between The Black Rose and The Manatee. Pertence à série publicadaEstá contido emHas the (non-series) prequelTem a adaptaçãoÉ resumida emTem como estudoHas as a commentary on the textTem um guia de estudo para estudantes
Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family, as narrated by friend Charles Ryder. Aristocratic, beautiful, and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline; the novel a mirror of the upper-class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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