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16:07 | 18-07-2010 | Culturology, History, Lifeform | 3 Comments
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kdm17 напомнила о письме Джорджа Оруэлла в защиту Пэлема Грэнвила Вудхауза от обивинений в коллаборационизме.
примечателен там, впрочем, не столько анализ мотивов самого Вудхауза, сколько трактовка Берти Вустера, как фундаментальный камень одного из аргументов Оруэлла:
But there is another important point about Bertie Wooster: his out-of-dateness. Conceived in 1917 or thereabouts, Bertie really belongs to an epoch earlier than that. <...> A humorous writer is not obliged to keep up to date, and having struck one or two good veins, Wodehouse continued to exploit them with a regularity that was no doubt all the easier because he did not set foot in England during the sixteen years that preceded his internment. His picture of English society had been formed before 1914, and it was a naive, traditional and, at bottom, admiring picture. <...> In his radio interview with Flannery, Wodehouse wondered whether “the kind of people and the kind of England I write about will live after the war,” not realising that they were ghosts already. “He was still living in the period about which he wrote,” says Flannery, meaning, probably, the nineteen-twenties. But the period was really the Edwardian age, and Bertie Wooster, if he ever existed, was killed round about 1915.
так и есть: он просто не мог существовать, об этом в полной мере рассказали Олдингтон, Во, и другие.
так же см. http://infornography.kpoxa.org/personal/s/log/2009/07/27/одной-строчкой-2/
вот так:
там же ссылки на стихи тех лет.
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