It is a clear reference to the plot of the novel: the story focuses on a couple, Tony and Brenda Last. He quotes line 27-30 of the first part of The Waste Land, titled the Burial of the Dead. Starting from the incipit of the novel, Waugh declares his idea of writing something as much closer as possible to the real human nature. The notion of Modernism and discuss its relevance to Waugh’s work. Waste Land,” one of the foundational texts of (English) Modernism. You can also read an essay about To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, NW by Zadie Smith, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen. The following article is a short essay and review realised as part of a take-home exam for Postromantic Materialism course held at the University of Leuven in 2014-2015.
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