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Evelyn Waugh: A shape in chaos
Paul Mankowski, First Things
Friday, September 22, 2017
Waugh could not have been a great satirist were he not a Catholic; his satire had its source in appropriation of the truths of Catholicism rather than in extenuation of its precepts. It was Catholicism that made “Waugh the insular and class-conscious bully” into an internationalist taking the side of the underdog. His satire subverts the social and political tyrannies of our time.