Who wrote the novel Vile Bodies?
Vile Bodies his first marriage halfway through the book's composition). Others have defended the novel's curious ending as a poetically just reversal of the conventions of comic romance. David Bowie cited the novel as the primary influence on his composition of the song "Aladdin Sane". A stage adaptation of "Vile Bodies", endorsed by the Evelyn Waugh estate, was staged at the Warwick Arts Centre in March 2012. Vile Bodies Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The original title was to be "Bright Young Things", which went
Vile Bodies phrase "Fiat experimentum in corpore vili" ("Let the experiment be done upon a worthless body"), which is cited by Boswell, De Quincey, Thackeray and others. The phrase 'vile body' appears in the bible: "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body?" (Philippians 3:21, King James Version). Heavily influenced by the cinema and by the disjointed style of T. S. Eliot, "Vile Bodies" is Waugh's second and most ostentatiously "modern" novel. Fragments of dialogue and rapid scene changes are held together by the dry, almost perversely unflappable narrator. Waugh said it was the