Travelogue in E. Waugh’s works (“Ninety-two days”)

The article deals with little-studied side of the creative heritage of the 20th century English satirist Evelyn Waugh, who spent a lot of time travelling - travelogues (on the example of the work Ninety-Two Days, dedicated to the Englishman’s journey to British Guiana, one of the most remote points on the map of the British Empire, today a country in South America that gained independence in 1966). Travelogue is traditionally very popular in English literature. E. Waugh, always remaining a writer, for a variety of reasons felt the need to record his travel impressions on paper. Often, he used the material later in writing literary texts. Among the distinctive features of the Englishman’s creative style are the following: ironic intonation, detailed recording of what is happening around, numerous descriptions, attention to people rather than sights, interest in history, and the desire to convey the atmosphere of a place. The article analyzes the structure of the book and the substantive aspects of its chapters. One of the main themes is the theme of writing. The leitmotif of travel is constant gatherings. Another repetitive motive is a discrepancy between expectations and reality. Much space in the book of E. Waugh, who became popular for the psychologism of his prose, is devoted to the analysis of human nature. The book Ninety-Two Days is an example of E. Waugh’s early work in the genre of travelogue - combining both the key features of this genre and the individual features of the creative style of the writer, who in this book acts as a representative of the vast British Empire, that was leaving out the last decades of its existence.