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,
“... rage’, his ‘calm, generous and open’ mother ‘a born peacemaker’ – left a two-fold mark on him: on the one hand, acquiring as a baby ‘the rock-bottom security that came from being unconditionally loved by his mother’, who bore him when she was 38; on the other, learning as a boy from the spectacle of his father the need for ‘strategies of ... ”