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,
“... under a thousand apiece from Jean-Yves Tadié and William Carter; Joyce, at 59, eight hundred from Richard Ellmann. Moving down the scale to medium or lightweights, there is little reduction in size. If we confine ourselves to Britain, Martin Stannard produced a thousand pages on Evelyn Waugh, who died when he was 62; Graham Greene, who survived him by a ... ”
