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Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban and, as it cruises towards Ceylon, rapidly slips into madness. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, and loud revival meetings. He is convinced that an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship . . . until instead of just sounds he hears voices. And not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frighteningly intimate way, about him!
- Sales Rank: #465236 in Books
- Published on: 2012-12-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Review
"The very model of the modern paranoid novel."―John Leonard, New York Times
"Unblinking candor informs Waugh's dark, comic vision."―William Boyd, Daily Telegraph
"Waugh's 'portrait of the artist in middle age' . . . is a genuine gothic horror, a gargoyle to terrify anyone who has ever contemplated a literary career. . . . The acid bath so often prepared for others has now found its way into his own tub. . . . Waugh draws an intimate picture of a distinguished author at bay."―Gerald Sykes, New York Times Book Review
"The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a masterpiece of self-portraiture, one of the very best in English fiction."―John Bailey
"A masterpiece. . . . Waugh's clear-sightedness about himself . . . is something which, in this taut, brilliantly phrased and crafted story, is itself an assertion of order out of chaos."―A. N. Wilson
About the Author
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Most autobiographical........
By Leslie Davis
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is generally regarded as Waugh's most autobiographical novel, and is worth a read on that count alone, even had it not also been a succinct and typically well-wrought humorous Waugh masterpiece. It may well be his funniest novel. As critic Malcolm Muggeridge comments it is".....a revelation of Waugh's inward conflicts and distresses which no biographer can hope to equal in poignancy and truth."
As Waugh notes on page 5 "....most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters - Dickenson and Balzac even - were flagrantly guilty." In his 50s Waugh, with a numerous family, and beset by the high taxation typical of post-war Britain that had reduced
many of his formerly prosperous middle-class neighbors to penury, has become an insomniac. Desperate for the sweet release of sleep, as well as the clarity of mind that only a good night of rest can provide, he turns to prescription sleeping aids. Naturally, what worked at first became less effective over time. He obtained the same substance from other physicians, unbeknownst to any of the physicians. He mixed the sleeping draught (a strong barbiturate) with alcohol, and soon his wife was extremely worried about him. To pacify her, and also because he has even become somewhat concerned, he agrees to a sea voyage where he will have no need of the sleeping draught, as he has always enjoyed good sleep at sea.
Whether because he is going cold turkey from the barbiturates, or due to lack of sleep, or both, he begins to hallucinate, and invents reasonable, if quite hilarious, delusions to explain the hallucinations. Many of us would be horrified by a psychotic experience, and not at all inclined to admit it........NOT Waugh. He was apparently quite amused, relieved at another offering from the well-springs of creativity, and hurried home to write Pinfold.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Evelyn Waugh was probably one of the first "Targeted Individuals"
By clactonian
Evelyn Waugh was probably one of the first "Targeted Individuals". His experience, told through the character of Pinfold, was a much gentler and sophisticated version of what targeted individuals experience on a continual basis in the 21st century. It is difficult to believe that Britain and the United States had such sophisticated psychotronic technology so soon after the end of World War Two, but it's true and Evelyn Waugh was probably one of the first subjects to be on the receiving end of a "targeting" experiment. See Sharon Weinberger's article "Mind Games" which appeared in the January 14th 2007 Washington Post for the reference to Evelyn Waugh and targeted individuals.
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