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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another.Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverentsatire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
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Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, is persuaded to send fashionable novelist John Boot as a foreign correspondent to cover the civil war in the African republic of Ishmaelia; but, owing to a most unfortunate case of mistaken identity, he actually sends William Boot, a contributor of charming nature notes to the Beast who has rarely ventured out of his rural retreat.
Evelyn Waugh's tale of an innocent abroad is a hilarious satire on journalism, set amidst the powerful currents of the 1930's, and contains a memorable collection of comic creations.
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
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- PublisherROBERT LAFFONT
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 2221117174
- ISBN 13 9782221117170
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- Number of pages341
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: OKAZ. William Boot, chroniqueur pour la rubrique " Faune et flore " d'un journal britannique, est un jeune homme avide de culture, menant une vie modeste, loin du tumulte londonien. Mais le jour où le rédacteur en chef du Daily Beast le confond avec un romancier de renom et l'envoie de force à l'étranger en tant qu'envoyé spécial, tout bascule. William est dépêché en Ismaël, un État fictif d'Afrique orientale, où une guerre civile serait sur le point d'éclater. Mais à Jacksonburg, la capitale, nulle trace de révolte, ni même d'opposition : seulement une nuée de journalistes étrangers venus guetter les soubresauts inexistants de l'actualité ismaëlienne. Chacun s'acquitte pourtant de sa tâche : couvrir à tout prix l'événement, généraliser, extrapoler, copier les autres, inventer pour tenir tête à la concurrence tout en télégraphiant les nouvelles que tous les magnats de la presse ont déjà prévues. Et malgré sa totale incompétence, c'est William Boot qui, accidentellement, décrochera le scoop tant attendu. Evelyn Waugh, le satiriste le plus cinglant de la littérature des années 1930, livre avec Scoop une véritable farce sur l'absurdité du monde journalistique, fustigeant la célèbre Fleet Street et la forfanterie des correspondants dépêchés à la hâte sur le continent africain. Avec ses personnages contrastés et hauts en couleur, son humour et sa finesse, Scoop est une remarquable diatribe contre les procédés artificiels et les fragilités déontologiques des pays européens - et du Royaume-Uni en premier lieu. - Nombre de page(s) : 1 vol. (341 p.) - Poids : 225g - Langue : fre - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Pavillons poche. Seller Inventory # O1451997-666
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