A school teacher getting invited to an extremely-thinly-veiled allegory for Franco's Spain for a conference on a poet who never accomplished anything? Oh yes, it is very Waugh, with all that entails - It's funny, it's witty, it's deeply dark, several elements of it are best left in the mid-twentieth century, especially, as usual, Waugh's treatment of race. It's Waugh! If you like Waugh, you'll like it.