"One day Churchill would win the Nobel Prize for literature (largely on the strength of The Second World War, much of which, as David Reynolds has shown in his splendid book In Command of History, was ghostwritten), but Churchill the writer also divided opinion. Lukacs mentions several eminent English writers who dismissed Churchill's "sham-Augustan prose," as it was called by Waugh, who added at the time of Churchill's death that he had been "always surrounded by crooks." His phrase comes to mind when Olson attempts to make another hero out of Churchill's hanger-on Robert Boothby, while relating the story of Harold Macmillan's unhappy marriage to Lady Dorothy Cavendish, and her decades-long liaison with Boothby."
segunda-feira, 12 de maio de 2008
O Prof. Espada à beira do suicídio? A desconstrução de Winston Churchill
"One day Churchill would win the Nobel Prize for literature (largely on the strength of The Second World War, much of which, as David Reynolds has shown in his splendid book In Command of History, was ghostwritten), but Churchill the writer also divided opinion. Lukacs mentions several eminent English writers who dismissed Churchill's "sham-Augustan prose," as it was called by Waugh, who added at the time of Churchill's death that he had been "always surrounded by crooks." His phrase comes to mind when Olson attempts to make another hero out of Churchill's hanger-on Robert Boothby, while relating the story of Harold Macmillan's unhappy marriage to Lady Dorothy Cavendish, and her decades-long liaison with Boothby."
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