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The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published.
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Autobiographical novel
Novel using autofiction techniques
An autobiographical novel, also known as an autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements. The literary technique is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
1957 autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957. It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Evelyn Waugh
British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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