Into Council Care
John Bayley, 6 July 1995
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel
by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle.
Macmillan, 208 pp., £35, December 1994,0 333 60760 0 Show More
by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle.
Macmillan, 208 pp., £35, December 1994,
“... movement of course) was much rarer because harder to do. A good writer in this genre, such as Martin Amis, succeeds in raping the ‘now’ by means of a philistine main character, who brutishly makes clear the sourness and the nowness of our time. Modernity’s awareness of itself must hit the reader through the pretence of utter indifference to any ... ”