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On Satire: Evelyn Waugh's 'A Handful of Dust'

In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he had written several novels taking aim at his ‘crazy, sterile generation’ with a sparkling, acerbic and increasingly reactionary wit. In this episode, Colin and Clare look at A Handful of Dust (1934), a disturbingly modernist satire divorced from modernist ideas. They discuss the ways in which Waugh was a disciple of Oscar Wilde, with his belief in the artist as an agent of cultural change, and why he’s at his best when describing the fevered dream of a dying civilisation. This is an extract from the episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecryt In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsyt Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford. Other episodes in the 'On Satire' series: What is satire?    • On Satire: What is satire?   John Donne's Satires:    • On Satire: John Donne's Satires   Ben Jonson's 'Volpone':    • On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'   The Earl of Rochester:    • On Satire: The Earl of Rochester   John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera':    • On Satire: John Gay's 'The Beggar's O...   'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope:    • On Satire: 'The Dunciad' by Alexander...   Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne:    • On Satire: 'The Life and Opinions of ...   Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’    • 'Interest' and reading in Jane Austen   ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.