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Do you think it just to describe you as a reactionary?
WAUGH
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along; he must offer some little opposition. Even the great Victorian artists were all anti-Victorian, despite the pressures to conform.
INTERVIEWER
But what about Dickens? Although be preached social reform he also sought a public image.
WAUGH
Oh, that’s quite different. He liked adulation and he liked showing off. But he was still deeply antagonistic to Victorianism.
INTERVIEWER
Is there any particular historical period, other than this one, in which you would like to have lived?
WAUGH
The seventeenth century. I think it was the time of the greatest drama and romance. I think I might have been happy in the thirteenth century, too.
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| William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Anthony Powell, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Ronald Firbank, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erle Stanley Gardner, Alfred Hitchcock, James Joyce, Ronald Knox, Gabriele Rossetti |
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