Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, 1945
432 pages
Read in 2009
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🔽 Summary and quick note 🔽
✔ Charles meets wealthy and mysterious Sebastian who carries a teddy at Oxford
✔ Family's value, pressure and struggles, with themes like happiness, charm and religion
✔ Decadence and charm, the sad truth behind the old English aristocracy
★★★★☆ In the 1920s, Charles meets a charming and mysterious young man, Sebastian, who carries a teddy bear at Oxford. Sad truth behind the aristocracy and its fall. "(Charm) spots and kills anything it touches... I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”
🔽 Book review 🔽
Decadence and charm, the sad truth behind the old English aristocracy.
Those who are born into it are not given a chance to be independent, they go with the flow, and sometimes they drown.
In the 1920s, Charles meets a charming and mysterious young man, Sebastian, who always carries a teddy bear at Oxford.
Charles goes to visit Sebastian's family at Brideshead - and everything changes.
It's a sad fate of born into a grand family who emphasise noble values, Sebastian feels betrayed and runs away and the war brings the inevitable end to Brideshead.
Charles observes Sebastian and his family, but he remains an outsider, while Anthony, their common friend, explains the sad story in one line;
“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love, it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”
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