Brideshead Revisited
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jackhttps://the-orbit.net/brutereason/2016/08/15/book-club-brideshead-revisited-introduction-chapter/
This essay points out Brideshead Revisited maybe makes more sense realising its a sympathetic lovesong to dysfunctional families populating glorious excessive country houses, written not necessarily because Waugh liked them, but because he was on leave from the war, and felt (a) hungry for a larger-than-life caricature of simple naive screwed up passions that people who are not dying in a war have (b) he assumed all that would just vanish from history, not that the buildings would be carefully preserved for the public by National Trust and English Heritage.
This essay points out Brideshead Revisited maybe makes more sense realising its a sympathetic lovesong to dysfunctional families populating glorious excessive country houses, written not necessarily because Waugh liked them, but because he was on leave from the war, and felt (a) hungry for a larger-than-life caricature of simple naive screwed up passions that people who are not dying in a war have (b) he assumed all that would just vanish from history, not that the buildings would be carefully preserved for the public by National Trust and English Heritage.