DECLINE AND FALL BY EVELYN WAUGH
Very Short Description (to
keep you intrigued) :)
Paul Pennyfeather is sent
away from the fictional College in Oxford for running through the grounds
without his trousers. Due to that he is deprived of his inheritance and is
obliged to take a job in an obscure school in Wales.
My humble opinion
Probably the best satira
I've ever read! From the very first pages the storyline is ridiculously amusing and sarcastically smart.
The characters and their stories are one more absurd than another and the
novel breathes with mockery
of the society.
I have only one advice to give: constantly keep in mind
the genre of the novel, otherwise you'll think the author went crazy
:)
Interesting Facts
The title of the novel was
inspired by Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire" as well as Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the
West". One of the leading ideas of the latter is that the rise of nations
is always followed by their decline.
Why read?
For the sake of dark humour!
