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And although there is fun made of native incompetence in running the government, the naivety of its original colonisers is not forgotten: He was also jealous, personally nasty and malicious, had been a bully at school, and as James Lees-Milne said, "the nastiest-tempered man in England". Mi verrebbe da dire nel solco di Il caro estinto, e quindi il Waugh satirico, caustico, umoristico, e talvolta comico, perché io ho letto prima quello che mette alla berlina le funeral home californiane, le pompe funebri: se non fosse che quello è stato pubblicato dopo, nel 1947, mentre questo risale al 1938. Katchen is virtually a prostitute who squeezes money out of him at every possible opportunity. She claims to be married, but isn’t. She claims to be German, but is of mongrel Pan-European origin. William is well to be rid of her when she departs in his collapsible canoe. If there is any difference between the world of 'Scoop' and the world of today, it might be a slight one; today, leaders of nations and organised democracies are dictating their pressmen and yes-men to keep the grapevine of lies and exaggerated or even non-existent achievements blooming and thriving in the fertile heat of people's indifference or ignorance, something like what Squealer in Orwell's 'Animal Farm' did for Napoleon, something like what Goebbels did for the delusional Hitler. That is, of course, a sight more darkly comic and unsettling than seeing the hopeless buffoon Lord Copper, newspaper tycoon of London's Fleet Street, go about in absent-minded, delusional fashion, proud of his 'talent' at spotting ace correspondents and reporters who are obviously falsifying or even inventing entire truths to earn their pay as per the contract.
Bob Mortimer has won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for his debut novel The Satsuma Complex. What makes 'Scoop' such delicious, tongue-in-cheek reading even today, more than 80 years after it was first published? Obviously, it is more fashionable among the recent clout of readers to treat it as a quaint, albeit enjoyable, relic of those days when racial and gender stereotypes could be tossed up not so casually in English literature. Quaint, Evelyn Waugh's book is for sure, but I think that like all great satires which endure for generations, Waugh's hilarious farce of sensationalist tabloid journalism at its most outrageous feels even more relevant and prescient in today's times of 'fake news' and salacious gossip columns giving birth to trolls and eliciting much laughter in the social media circuits. News is no longer what we used to read to obtain the truth.Boot is given information by the British vice-consul, but Corker denies its validity. A special train arrives with their lost luggage and lots more journalists. Boot moves into a pension and meets a married German girl who immediately dupes him out of twenty pounds. Waugh fu inviato dal Daily Mail (che nel romanzo diventa il Daily Beast) in Africa Orientale come reporter per scrivere dell’invasione fascista dell’Abissinia, quella che viene ricordata come Seconda Guerra Itali-Abissina (dall’ottobre del 1935 al maggio del 1936). Quando Waugh ritenne d’aver scovato la notizia bomba, uno scoop, mandò il suo pezzo via telegrafo scritto in latino per aggirare possibili jntercettazioni della concorrenza: il giornale ricevette il pezzo, ma lo trovò incomprensibile e lo eliminò.
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole", a line from one of Boot's countryside columns, has become a famous comic example of overblown prose style. [ citation needed] It inspired the name of the environmentalist magazine Vole, which was originally titled The Questing Vole. Similarly, there is irritation and upset that the interview and events leading up to it have been monetised. William Boot, a young man who lives in genteel poverty, far from the iniquities of London, contributes nature notes to Lord Copper's Daily Beast, a national daily newspaper. He is dragooned into becoming a foreign correspondent, when the editors mistake him for John Courteney Boot, a fashionable novelist and a remote cousin. He is sent to Ishmaelia, a fictional state in East Africa, to report on the crisis there. and then, laboriously, with a single first finger and his heart heavy with misgiving, he typed the first news story of his meteoric career.” (p. 179) Scoop is a scathing satire on journalistic policy and practice that has been plaguing the world from the time of its birth. Nothing much has changed from the time of its publication, and the story is still apt for today. So, one can say that this is and will be a timeless tale.What took place before and after the interview proves fairly eye-popping too. For the final negotiations about whether he’d publicly discuss accusations of sex with a 17-year-old girl, Andrew brought with him his daughter, Princess Beatrice. Once the interview was over, a beaming palace equerry exclaimed to McAlister: “Wasn’t he wonderful!” – a verdict with which the man himself, by then in “in fine spirits”, evidently concurred. One of the main reasons the Duke agreed to go on Newsnight was because of the programme’s gravitas and reputation for conducting in-depth, hard-hitting interviews, sources contend.
Scoop was made into a BBC serial in 1972 and also a television film scripted by William Boyd in 1987, starring Denholm Elliott, and directed by Gavin Millar. The fictional newspaper owned by Lord Copper in Scoop has also been the inspiration for the title of Tina Brown’s online American publication, the Daily Beast. Three more from Evelyn Waugh
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ESPAÑOL: Este libro es una crítica mordaz de la labor de los periodistas, especialmente de los corresponsales de guerra, escrita de una forma tan divertida como las novelas de Wodehouse. En varias ocasiones (especialmente en la primera parte) no pude contener la risa mientras leía.
Funny, clever, and with Bob Mortimer’s very distinctive voice, it’s the perfective literary accompaniment to a good glass of Champagne Bollinger.’Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers; it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.” Lord Copper of the Beast recommends Boot for a knighthood – but it is awarded in error to the novelist John Boot, the author of smutty stories. eye candy συγγραφικό που με τον ρυθμό του παρασύρει τον αναγνώστη εκεί ακριβώς που θέλει ο Βω. Για το άκρως σκωπτικό ύφος του, όμως, υπάρχουν πολλές ενστάσεις: πολλοί αναγνώστες κατηγορούν για ρατσισμό και άκαρδα φυλετικά σχόλια τον συγγραφέα. Ας πούμε για παράδειγμα το παρακάτω κομμάτι (σε δική μου απόδοση), όπου οι αγανακτισμένοι δημοσιογράφοι αντί για τον προορισμό τους, καταλήγουν στο σπίτι ενός φίλου τους από λάθος του ιθαγενή οδηγού:
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