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,
“... in a belated stage version of his prewar novel Afternoon Men – tell no tales. His friend Alan Ross, editor of the London Magazine, thought that surrounded by promiscuous friends, he may have simply found a vicarious pleasure, productive for his fiction, in observing them, while conducting his own marital life with the meticulous sexual correctness Jenkins ... ”