
" During World War II, Brideshead, a great English manor house, has become the headquarters of the Army. There again, now as a soldier, Charles Ryder, modeled on the times when he was almost a member of the Marchmain family, owner of the mansion, recalling the close and ambiguous relationship he had with Sebastian and his fascination with his sister, Julia. Gradually
reveals the story of a Catholic family of the British aristocracy fell into decline and failed to break the impasse. "
Brideshead (Brideshead Revisited), is the most famous novel by British writer, Evelyn Waugh . who never heard about it might think that was a writer, but his real name Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (1903-1966). The rumors say that the novel is largely a memoir of the author who wrote the novel while recuperating from war wounds.
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Narrated in flashback, begins with the protagonist being an Army officer who, finding himself in the mansion, remember the days spent there.
Charles Ryder is a middle class boy who wants to be an artist, but his eccentric father sent him to Oxford to continue the family tradition.
In its first year of study meets and gets involved with people "frowned upon" by their way of life and sexual orientation. In this group is Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of an aristocratic family, with whom he established a friendship with gay dyes. Through
Sebastian, Charles Brideshead mansion known as the Marchmain family and living with them, will help you understand the complexed life that leads to his friend with alcoholism.
An absent father, a manipulative mother, a child with a conflict of identity, a daughter who wants to fit in and among them, Charles, an atheist observer is involved in the complexity of the Catholic religion and the need to keep up appearances of the aristocracy.
His relationship with the family will be intermittent over the years, the Marchmain's lives will be marked by guilt and by faith.
The theme that runs throughout the novel is the divine grace, but viewed with most current thinking, Sebastian and Julia appear to have suffered in vain.
A great novel, considered among the top 100 novels of all time by the magazine TIME has been made into a film and television.
In 1981, she was taken to the TV as an eight-hour miniseries. Starring Jeremy Irons (Charles Ryder) and Laurence Olivier (as Lord Marchmain), is a cult show for fans of the book.

In 2008, was made into a film by Julian Jarrold with little success. I was long and very exciting, it reduces the argument to a simple love triangle. Perhaps, if not read the book, the movie does not disappoint. But far is to capture the sense that Waugh gave the book, but Emma Thompson is brilliant in the role of head of the clan.

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