Noël Annan places Evelyn Waugh among the deviants of mid-century England
Noël Annan, 20 June 1985
“... regenerated and then betrayed during the war, and is so reactionary a Catholic that an Irishman, Conor CruiseO’Brien, denounces him.Indeed, the whole of his oeuvre has been read as an attempt to bolster his self-confidence. His critics declare that he wanted to be sure that he really was in with the upper classes ... ”