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Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, prides himself on his flair for spotting ace reporters. Acting on a tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels he has hit on just the chap to cover a war in the African Republic of Ishmalia... Here begins Waugh's comedy of mistaken identity and his satire on Fleet Street and its pursuit of news.

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Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story.
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  • PublisherROBERT LAFFONT
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 2221117174
  • ISBN 13 9782221117170
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages341
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: OKAZ. William Boot, chroniqueur pour la rubrique " Faune et flore " d'un journal britannique, est un jeune homme avide de culture, menant une vie modeste, loin du tumulte londonien. Mais le jour où le rédacteur en chef du Daily Beast le confond avec un romancier de renom et l'envoie de force à l'étranger en tant qu'envoyé spécial, tout bascule. William est dépêché en Ismaël, un État fictif d'Afrique orientale, où une guerre civile serait sur le point d'éclater. Mais à Jacksonburg, la capitale, nulle trace de révolte, ni même d'opposition : seulement une nuée de journalistes étrangers venus guetter les soubresauts inexistants de l'actualité ismaëlienne. Chacun s'acquitte pourtant de sa tâche : couvrir à tout prix l'événement, généraliser, extrapoler, copier les autres, inventer pour tenir tête à la concurrence tout en télégraphiant les nouvelles que tous les magnats de la presse ont déjà prévues. Et malgré sa totale incompétence, c'est William Boot qui, accidentellement, décrochera le scoop tant attendu. Evelyn Waugh, le satiriste le plus cinglant de la littérature des années 1930, livre avec Scoop une véritable farce sur l'absurdité du monde journalistique, fustigeant la célèbre Fleet Street et la forfanterie des correspondants dépêchés à la hâte sur le continent africain. Avec ses personnages contrastés et hauts en couleur, son humour et sa finesse, Scoop est une remarquable diatribe contre les procédés artificiels et les fragilités déontologiques des pays européens - et du Royaume-Uni en premier lieu. - Nombre de page(s) : 1 vol. (341 p.) - Poids : 225g - Langue : fre - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Pavillons poche. Seller Inventory # O1451997-666

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