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30 de ago. de 2002 · Black Mischief. Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown, Aug 30, 2002 - Fiction - 304 pages. Black Mischief, " Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom.
Black Mischief, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1932. The book skewers attempts to impose European customs and beliefs upon so-called primitive peoples. The story is set in the fictional empire of Azania, an island off the coast of Africa. Upon the death of the emperor of Azania, rule
The real heir to the throne was hidden in the mountains, fettered with chains of solid gold.’1 Electrified, Waugh engineered a meeting with Jack Driberg, a respectable member of the Colonial Service, known to speak eleven African languages and to have eaten human flesh twice – a clear if distant progenitor of the disreputable Basil Seal, Black Mischief ‘s anthropophagous, polyglot anti-hero.
Black Mischief is clever and it is entertaining." Orville Prescott, New York Times "To achieve greatness, in the opinion of this devotee of the genre, satire must be rooted not only in a genuine love for the object being satirized but also in an awareness of the object's relation to the entire human condition, regardless of race, color, creed, or geography.
Hilarity in Africa. BLACK MISCHIEF. By Evelyn Waugh. ast year Evelyn Waugh, as correspondent for a London paper, covered the coronation ceremonies of Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia. He then wrote a delightful travel book, "They Were Still Dancing," about his adventures in Africa, a continent which, it would seem, he finds peculiarly amusing.
"Black Mischief," Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom.
Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief, published in 1932, recounts the unfortunate attempts of Seth, sovereign of the mythical East African Empire of Azania, to modernise his dominions. In this he is aided (although perhaps aided is the wrong word) by Basil Seal, an unscrupulous an incompetent English adventurer.
