5.

SATIRE AND DYSTOPIA AND

THE NOVEL BETWEEN
1930-1950
SATIRE AND DYSTOPIA:
 MAIN TRAITS:

 Political turmoil: Spanish Civil War, Hitler and Mussolini

in power.
 Artists feel the need to commit to society.
 Abandonment of experimentation: more interest in the
content than in the form.
 Use of satire, fables, and moral tales in which
didacticism overcomes art for art’s sake.
SATIRE AND DYSTOPIA:

Aldous Huxley

Evelyn Waugh
George Orwell
 ALDOUS HUXLEY

 1894 - 1963
 ALDOUS HUXLEY: NOVELS

 Crome Yellow (1921)

 Antic Hay (1923)

 Those Barren Leaves (1925)

 Point Counter Point (1928)

 Brave New World (1932)

 ALDOUS HUXLEY: NOVELS
 Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
 After Many a Summer (1939)
 Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
 Ape and Essence (1948)
 The Genius and the
Goddess (1955)
 Island (1962)
 EVELYN WAUGH

 1903 - 1966
 EVELYN WAUGH: NOVELS
 Decline and Fall (1928)
 Vile Bodies (1930)
 Black Mischief (1932)
 A Handful of Dust (1934)
 Scoop (1938)
 Work Suspended (1942)
 Put Out More Flags (1942)
 EVELYN WAUGH: NOVELS
 Brideshead Revisited (1945)
 The Loved One (1948)
 Helena (1950)
 Men at Arms (1952)
 Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)
 Unconditional Surrender (1961)
 GEORGE ORWELL

 1903 - 1950
 GEORGE ORWELL: NOVELS
 Down and Out in Paris and

London (1933)
 Burmese Days (1934)

 A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)

 Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
 The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
 GEORGE ORWELL: NOVELS
 Homage to Catalonia (1938)

 Coming Up for Air (1939)

 Animal Farm (1945)

 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

 THE NOVEL BETWEEN 1930-
1950
 MAIN TRAITS:

 Despair after the 2nd World War: a civilization

almost erased, Europe in ruins.

 Pessimism about humanity.

 AUTHORS:

 Graham Greene

 Malcom Lowry
 GRAHAM GREENE
 1904 - 1991


 GRAHAM GREENE: NOVELS
 Istamboul Train (1932)
 England Made Me (1935)
 A Gun for Sale (1936)
 Brighton Rock (1938)
 The Confidential Agent (1939)
 The Power and the Glory (1940)
 The Ministry of Fear (1943)
 The Heart of the Matter (1948)
 The Third Man (1949)
 The End of the Affair (1951)
 The Quiet American (1955)
 GRAHAM GREENE: NOVELS
 Our Man in Havana (1958)
A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
 The Comedians (1966)
 Travels with My Aunt (1969)
 The Honorary Consul (1973)
 The Human Factor (1978)
 Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)
 Monsignor Quixote (1982)
 The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
MALCOM LOWRY

1909 - 1957
 MALCOM LOWRY: NOVELS

 Ultramarine (1933)

 Under the Volcano (1947)