7/6/2023 0 Comments Helena by Evelyn WaughThe book, published for the first time in 1950, is a study of a vocation, and the mysterious action of divine grace, a thematic path already started by the English writer with Brideshead Revisited and The Loved One, and which would continue in the following years with the trilogy Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender. Waugh traces the story of Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine and the one to whom, according to tradition, credit goes to having found the True Cross of Christ, as a path of growth from the paganism of her adolescence in Britain to the Faith of mature age, spent in Rome and then in Jerusalem. Here’s a translation of the beginning of the article:Ĭontrary to what Evelyn Waugh himself claimed, Elena ( Helena ) is by no means his best novel. The review is by Luca Fumagalli who frequently writes about Waugh’s works. An Italian translation of the novel was published as Elena: la madre dell’imperatore in 2002, but this review is not related to that publication, aside from a display of the cover art at the beginning of the article. The Italian religious news website Radio Spada has published a review of Waugh’s novel Helena.
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