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Scott-King's Modern Europe is a satire on post-1945 totalitarianism. The story sets out in particular Waugh's attitudes towards communism in the Balkans and is plainly also an attack on the drabness of the continent following the Second World War.
21 de fev. de 2017 · Scott-King is a schoolmaster’s schoolmaster: quiet, measured, honest, and thoughtful. He is convinced to disrupt his quiet, consistent life in England to visit the totalitarian country of Neutralia, to participate in a conference on a poet who he has studied extensively.
Scott-King's Modern Europe. Book Description. Author Evelyn Waugh. Date 1947. Binding Publisher's Blue Cloth. Publisher Chapman and Hall. Condition Good.
Scott-King's Modern Europe is a short, perhaps over-short novella by Evelyn Waugh. Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europe largely unknown to its determinedly English protagonist. In 1946 Scott-King had been classical master at Grantchester for twenty-five years, we are told in the tale's first sentence.
Waugh's novella (sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia), first appeared in Cornhill magazine, and was published separately in the same year in this form. Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical languages at Granchester, an English private school which was his own ...
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A First Edition copy of Evelyn Waugh's novella 'Scott-King's Modern Europe', often known by its other name, 'A Sojourn in Neutralia'. Set shortly after the Second World War, the novel follows the story of Scott-King, a teacher of classical languages, as he travels through Europe. Discussing themes of utopia, dystopia, totalitarianism, and idea of a modern Europe, the novel is an interesting ...
