Different Speeds, Same Furies
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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,
“... recognised by contemporaries: ‘one of the great minds and imaginations of our day’, Edmund Wilson wrote in the 1920s, ‘absolutely comparable’ to ‘the Nietzsches, the Tolstoys, the Wagners and the Ibsens of a previous generation’.All literary magnitudes are finite. In the case of great writers, it is understandable that their vices should ... ”
