Eliza’s Reviews > Brideshead Revisited > Status Update

Waugh has loomed over me like a spectre for over a decade. By the time I decided to try him in my early 20s, I learned how repugnant his political and social views were, and put him off. But even his harshest critics, like Orwell, praise him as a novelistic master. So I’m giving in. So far I get why people love his work: it’s funny, tender, nostalgic, critical, and snobby AF. Feels very Fitzgerald.