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Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, which chronicles the misadventures of William Boot, a blundering but well-meaning journalist who is roped into becoming a foreign correspondent after being mistaken for a distant cousin. During his time abroad, he proves to be entirely unsuited for the position, but nevertheless manages to uncover the titular ‘scoop’ through sheer force of luck in a narrative that unrelentingly satirises the role of news in modern life and the sensationalist tactics employed by the journalists of the era. Evelyn Waugh was one of the foremost English authors of the interwar period, and is chiefly remembered for his ruthless wit and irreverent satire.
Scoop was his fifth novel.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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EVELYN WAUGH
ENGLISH WRITER
Born in London in 1903.Died in Somerset in 1966.Notable works:Decline and Fall (1928), novelA Handful of Dust (1934), novelBrideshead Revisited (1945), novelEvelyn Waugh was an English novelist and journalist. He was educated at Lancing College, Sussex and later earned a third-class degree from Hertford College, Oxford. After working as a schoolmaster, briefly attending art school, taking carpentry lessons and attempting to drown himself only to be put off by a jellyfish, he published his first book, a biography of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1928, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, later that year. There followed a conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930, a second marriage in 1937, the births of seven children, journeys in Africa and South America, stints in the Royal Marines, the Commandos and the Special Service Brigade during the Second World War and the publication of 13 more novels and several works of non-fiction, before his death on Easter Sunday in 1966. Waugh is revered as one of English literature’s finest prose stylists and fiercest satirists. His greatest novels are typically both hilarious and disturbing and chronicle the chaos, disillusionment and moral ambiguity of the years between the two World Wars.
SCOOP
A NOVEL ABOUT JOURNALISTS
Genre: novelReference edition: Waugh, E. (2000) Scoop. [Ebook]. London: Penguin Classics.1stedition: 1938Themes: journalism, news, politics, war, country lifeScoop was Evelyn Waugh’s fifth novel. Published in 1938 and described in a New York Times review as “uproariously funny” (The New York Times, 1938), it is a thrilling and farcical portrait of life as a foreign correspondent.
The unsuspecting William Boot – country gentleman and nature columnist – is plucked from obscurity by Lord Copper, the omnipotent owner of the Daily Beast, and dispatched to Ishmaelia in Africa, where war is brewing. “Best of luck” he is told. “We shall expect the first victory about the beginning of July” (p. 56).
Largely uninterested in his trade and entirely ignorant of the Ishmaelite situation, Boot nonetheless manages – quite by accident and under the noses of his vastly more experienced colleagues – to uncover a major story, much to the delight of all back at the Beast.
By the time Scoop was published, Waugh was already established as one of the pre-eminent novelists of the age. The novel remains a favourite among his readers, and is held by journalists to be one of the finest fictional portrayals of their profession in English literature.
