Different Speeds, Same Furies
Perry Anderson: Powell v. Proust, 19 July 2018
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
by Hilary Spurling.
Hamish Hamilton, 509 pp., £25, October 2017,978 0 241 14383 4 Show More
by Hilary Spurling.
Hamish Hamilton, 509 pp., £25, October 2017,
“... of a first-person narrative, nearly as canonical since the time of Constant or Charlotte Brontë, to lengths never attempted before, if also without overmuch coherence: the narrator not only reports Swann in the third person, but assumes on occasion an impossible omniscience in the first person. By the time Powell started to write, the interior ... ”
