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Mit Glanz und Gloria

von Evelyn Waugh

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Der 1942 erschienene Roman schildert die von Selbstsucht und Ahnungslosigkeit geprägten Reaktionen der Londoner Gesellschaft auf die "lästigen" Begleitumstände des Krieges.
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    Der Knüller. von Evelyn Waugh (John_Vaughan)
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    Verfall und Untergang von Evelyn Waugh (John_Vaughan)
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    Officers and Gentlemen von Evelyn Waugh (John_Vaughan)
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    The End of the Battle von Evelyn Waugh (John_Vaughan)
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    Miss Bunting von Angela Thirkell (thorold)
    thorold: Quite apart from the appalling pun in Thirkell's title, it's pretty obvious that Waugh and Thirkell enjoyed each other's books. It's fun comparing their approaches to the wartime home-front situation.
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    Die Frau des Botschafters. von Nancy Mitford (shaunie)
    shaunie: Waugh goes deeper into human emotions in his best book, but the two authors are otherwise very similar and great fun. These books both move along at a cracking pace.
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It took more than a bit of concentration (I reread the first 20 pages over before I understood where I thought it was going--''thought'' being the key word). While it was of course witty and funny and at times divinely written (I even found myself marking pages to record some floral language I loved), there wasn't really a definable plot at all, and the characters didn't go much of anywhere. I wanted to hear more of the misbehaved kids and could swear it would come back into play later in the book. However, like most parts of the book resembling a brewing story, it did not come to fruition. It was a lovely painting of wartime and while, yes, I did catch the satire--i thought the more poignant parts were those that spoke the truth of that era. The last half was increasingly hard to get through, and I almost gave up and surely gave up paying full attention in the last 30 pages or so. It was worth reading for a unique WWII perspective, but more cohesion and plot could've changed this book from several pasted-together character portraits into a very fulfilling novel. ( )
  ostbying | Jan 1, 2023 |
I did like it. It has been over 20 years since i read the 20s Waugh novels and don't remember character wise who did what (there is carry over here) and that might have deepened my enjoyment. Still- on its own- it is ... funny... a bit insightful and ultimately (at the very very end) patriotic in a good way. As funny as it is- the passing along of the troubled nightmare kids to different families in the city kids had to be safe in the country time period- it isn't really that great. ( )
  apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
Waugh begins with two quotes from Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living. Interestingly, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank used the epigraph as a critique of President Trump's February 2018 plans to hold a "grand military parade" in Washington. Yutang's epigraph provides Waugh's title:
A man getting drunk at a farewell party should strike a musical tone, in order to strengthen his spirit . . . and a drunk military man should order gallons and put out more flags in order to increase his military splendor.
A second quote from Yutang applies equally to the work of Waugh and Trump:
A little injustice in the heart can be drowned by wine; but a great injustice in the world can be drowned only by the sword.
Yet Milbank's critique of Trump refers to the Classical Roman triumphal parades, sans the ego check:
There’s only one problem with this plan, as I see it. In the Roman triumph, a slave would ride with the general in his chariot and repeatedly whisper into his ear, “Memento mori”: Remember, you are mortal. For our parading president, this could be a dealbreaker.
The Evelyn Waugh Society was chuffed that Put Out More Flags got a guernsey. But here is the "dealbreaker" for comparing the theme of Waugh's story with contemporary conflicts: Waugh's characters all act like petty scammers and nepotists during the Phoney War, but by the time the conflict begins, and reality hits the first casualty, we see a change of heart as the characters step up and do their duty. Nonetheless, the period before the evacuation of Dunkirk and the ensuing Battle of Britain was remarkably un-warlike. Waugh captures this time satirically. I was confused about the theme of this work and so I turned to John Chamberlain's 1942 review in The New York Times. Chamberlain wrote:
[The story] starts out as a wicked satire in the well-known Waugh manner and ends up as a morality play.
I rather thought it otherwise - that Waugh was looking at human nature when there was nothing to lose, versus once the first blood is spilt. Once our first war casualty appears, everyone except the author rushes to become a commando or refuses a commission so they can serve as private soldiers. Otherwise, they are all silver-tails who try to gain obscure roles in safe office jobs. There is one scene, however, where the author is exiled to Ireland, that reminds me of the present. Basil Seal, in his attempt to increase his tenuous status in the bureaucracy, accuses the author of being a Nazi (a situation which Basil himself orchestrated). This results in the author's exile and I watched the movie Trumbo immediately after finishing the book. To be un-American (or indeed, un-Australian) seems to be a timeless farce. Chamberlain thought the change in attitude of the elites rather absurd, that it was not "good Waugh". Yet the book remains a classic, with Bridey Heing writing for Pank Magazine in 2015 claiming that:
...telling a story that is humorous without making a joke of war itself can be extremely difficult [and] Put Out More Flags is laugh-out-loud funny, and the humor being at the expense of the war industry makes that laughter cathartic.
I certainly didn't laugh out loud, but I intend to read more of Waugh's work. Once I started, I barely put this book down. This is the first Evelyn Waugh novel I have read, and I have A Handful of Dust to read next. ( )
  madepercy | Dec 26, 2018 |
The general image of Britain at the beginning of the second World War is very different from the polite, quietly ridiculous society portrayed here. The story follows an aging rascal (Basil, who I came to hate), his aristocratic family, and his friend Ambrose, a flamboyantly gay writer. The talk is witty, the characters vivid, and the plot mostly serves to show how wrong all the experts where when it came time for war. ( )
  wealhtheowwylfing | Feb 29, 2016 |
Just as acerbic as Vile Bodies but less charming; just as morally outraged as Sword of Honour but with less pathos; Put Out More Flags falls uncomfortably between two stools. It bruises its rump, and retreats into an air of umbrage that undermines the humour, frequently. It's an appropriate document of the "phony war" in that sense, embodying-not-just-depicting a lot of the pettiness and irrelevance of an interwar Britain that hadn't yet cottoned on to the fact that the war was no longer "inter." And as a result it's cool in the last pages how all that falls away (goodbye, all that!) as everyone starts to catch up and understand that they've entered a time to try their souls. A purification, but one with ironic bite when you know about Waugh's own history in the war--this book was written in 1942, after a couple of bungled attempts on his part to nobly give his all to make the world safe for patrician constitutional toffness, but when the victory still hung in the balance and he still had hopes of reaching his apotheosis. There would be more bungles, and a deeper disillusionment devastatingly chronicled in Sword of Honour, which makes this book seem small--a blinkered smallness mistaking itself for realism, the Chamberlain to Sword of Honour's (cos albeit the man was a warmonger and war criminal, a racist and a glutton, and we reject big man history and find the Allied win in the overwhelming industrial economics of the thing, he was still in some wise a titan) Churchill. ( )
1 abstimmen MeditationesMartini | Dec 7, 2015 |
For my money, Waugh is the greatest stylistic craftsman of the 20th century. Tone-deaf to music, he was pitch-perfect when it came to the music of the English language. I love the limpidness of his writing, its shocking clarity. Put Out More Flags is as tightly constructed — point and counterpoint — as a baroque fugue.
 
[Put Out More Flags} is the best record I have read of England in the first year of the Second War. In it, at the very height of his powers, Waugh somehow fuses the savage, deadly comedy of his earlier books with the ominous seriousness of his later ones. . . . If I'm not mistaken, Put Out More Flags is the greatest of Evelyn Waugh's great novels. As such, it deserves to be revived and reread as long as we read English
 

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A man getting drunk at a farewell party should strike a musical tone, in order to strengthen his spirit . . . and a drunk military man should order gallons and put out more flags in order to increase his military splendour.

--Chinese Sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living.

A little injustice in the heart can be drowned by wine; but a great injustice in the world can be drowned only by the sword.

--Epigrams of Chang Ch'ao; quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living.
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In the week which preceded the outbreak of the Second World War -- days of surmise and apprehension which cannot, without irony, be called the last days of "peace" -- and on the Sunday morning when all doubts were finally resolved and misconceptions corrected, three rich women thought first and mainly of Basil Seal.
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"To the Chinese scholar the military hero was the lowest of human types, the subject for ribaldry. We must return to Chinese scholarship."
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The great weapons of modern war did not count in single lives; it took a whole section to make a target worth a burst of machine-gun fire; a platoon or a motor lorry to be worth a bomb. No one had anything against the individual; as long as he was alone he was free and safe; there's danger in numbers; divided we stand, united we fall, thought Cedric, striding happily towards the enemy, shaking from his boots all the frustration of corporate life. He did not know it but he was thinking exactly what Ambrose had thought when he announced that culture must cease to be conventual and become coenobitic.
"No one ever suspects a soldier of taking a serious interest in the war."
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