When Arthur Waugh won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1888, he broke with the family tradition of working in medicine, but created a new trade for the Waughs that continues to today: writing. His two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both followed in his profession and, like so many other sons, faced accusations of preference because of who their father was. Their sibling rivalry was formed by Arthur's clear favouritism towards Alec, but Evelyn emerged to become one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Evelyn's son ...
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When Arthur Waugh won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1888, he broke with the family tradition of working in medicine, but created a new trade for the Waughs that continues to today: writing. His two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both followed in his profession and, like so many other sons, faced accusations of preference because of who their father was. Their sibling rivalry was formed by Arthur's clear favouritism towards Alec, but Evelyn emerged to become one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Evelyn's son Auberon also struggled to emerge from his father's shadow, and developed a career as one of Britain's best-loved and most original columnists. Now his son, Alexander, has taken up the baton. This is the story of four generations of a brilliant family, all of whom have written about their relationships with their fathers and sons. It is also a book that reveals much about the nature of how any family copes with its own rivalry.
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It seems to me that there is quite a chasm between those who write well and those whose skill is spectacular. It's something to be leaped across and often the consequence of the leap is prodigious in terms of pain and interior dislocation. Evelyn Waugh would seem to be on the far side of the jump, and suffered the consequences in spades. I could not finish this book, though it's hard for me to discontinue a read. The family and the author, who belongs to it himself, left me in a state of depression. Surviving the family at all must draw a great deal of admiration; and though this account leaves us with gratitude for the talent that gave us Evelyn, I was tempted to ask whether there was anybody nice or even half-way normal in the gang, and to surround the whole brood with compassion and a meditation on the guts that got them through life at all.