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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
"My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me... These memories, which are my life - for we possess nothing certainly except the past - were always with me. Like the pigeons of St Mark's, they were everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder" (211).
A thought-provoking exploration of faith and doubt, trailing from Oxford to London to Venice to Paris and beyond. The story conjured resemblances to Atonement and The Talented Mr. Ripley for me. Brideshead's beginning held me rapt, but my interest waned in the middle. The conclusion drew me in once more, but, overall, the text kept me at a distance throughout. Still, there were beautiful segments of prose I will return to again and again.
A thought-provoking exploration of faith and doubt, trailing from Oxford to London to Venice to Paris and beyond. The story conjured resemblances to Atonement and The Talented Mr. Ripley for me. Brideshead's beginning held me rapt, but my interest waned in the middle. The conclusion drew me in once more, but, overall, the text kept me at a distance throughout. Still, there were beautiful segments of prose I will return to again and again.