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Dubravka Ugrešić: Muzej bezuvjetne predaje (The Museum of Unconditional Surrender) The book starts off with a post-modern list, this time quite an unusual one, namely the contents of a walrus’s stomach. The walrus has a name – Roland. The contents of Roland’s stomach are fairly extensive and entirely random. I mention this as it shows ...
PROLOGUE. Lovat's trivial triumph over Waugh is quickly dispatched in the Prologue to Unconditional Surrender, where Waugh contrives a nod to his own degrading rejection in Guy's comparable discomfiture. In 1941 ‘A draft of reinforcements was sent out’ to Ritchie-Hook's battalion, biffing its way across North Africa, but ‘Guy was not ...
Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouch becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor. Unconditional Surrender is the third novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback. -- Amazon.com.
Unconditional Surrender is the third novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback ("the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II"-Atlantic Monthly), which also comprises Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen. ISBN-10. 0316216739.
- Evelyn Waugh
11 de dez. de 2012 · Unconditional Surrender. Hardcover – Dec 11 2012. by Evelyn Waugh (Author) 4.5 51 ratings. See all formats and editions. The third installment of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy, called "the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II" by The Atlantic. By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback ...
- Evelyn Waugh
Unconditional Surrender was finally written, and published in 1961. Twenty years, six novels, two travel books, and a biography separate this novel from the raw experiences it was based on. The impacted biographical substrata of a third of Waugh's life and more than a third of his total literary output provide the foundations for his last novel.
