AUTHORIAL VOICE IN CONTEXT: CATHOLIC IDENTITY, SOCIAL HIERARCHY, AND THE INFLUENCE OF TIME ON EVELYN WAUGH

Abstract

If you compare him with other Catholic writers, like Graham Greene, you can see the differences. For Green, faith is pain. Conflict. Man suffers by choosing between God and the world. Faith is more like an optician. He looks at people through it. He doesn’t judge them. He shows how easy it is to be mistaken. It’s hard to be honest. How easy it is to lose touch with yourself. That’s why his texts don’t seem like sermons. They’re like the notes of a man who knows what’s good, but sees how bad it is.