The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
00:00
Brizer Visited
The book is infused with a kind of gluttony for food and wine. It's set in this utopian vision, but what it does is it takes all the color out of the diversity of English words and vocabulary. And so what I'm going to argue is that what Walt's doing is going back to the things that filled his memory. He's playing around with all these diet ideas and tinkering with them. That is conceiving in time who he is.
Transcript
Play full episode
