Impersonality
Barbara Everett, 10 November 1988
A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers
by Hugh Kenner.
Barrie and Jenkins, 290 pp., £16.95, September 1988,0 7126 2197 0 Show More
by Hugh Kenner.
Barrie and Jenkins, 290 pp., £16.95, September 1988,
“... One day a long while ago Philip Larkin dropped a remark in passing about the difficulties of his current private life. He made it in the form of a jokey generalisation about the impossibility of relations between men and women, and added that the women ought really to marry each other, but that would be wrong, wouldn’t it? I forgot the remark for over thirty years until I bumped into it as an observation by one of the characters in Kingsley Amis’s latest novel, Difficulties with girls ... ”