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Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St. John) 1903–1966: Critical Essay by Julian Jebb (interview with Evelyn Waugh)

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INTERVIEWER: E. M. Forster has spoken of "flat characters and round characters"; if you recognize this distinction, would you agree that you created no "round" characters until A Handful of Dust?

WAUGH: All fictional characters are flat. A writer can give an illusion of depth by giving an apparently stereoscopic view of a character—seeing him from two vantage points; all a writer can do is give more or less information about a character, not information of a different order.

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Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St. John) 1903–1966: Critical Essay by Julian Jebb (interview with Evelyn Waugh) from Literature Criticism Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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