Different Speeds, Same Furies
Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms
$32.10
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson measures Powell’s achievement against Marcel Proust’s more celebrated In Search of Lost Time.
The literature on Dance is a drop in the ocean compared to that on Proust. Yet in construction of plot and depic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804290798 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1804290793 |
| Author: | Perry Anderson |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
It is Perry Anderson’s achievement that stimulated me to have another go at Proust, even while his original criticism of Anthony Powell was instrumental in provoking yet one more reading of A Dance to the Music of Time. – William H. Pritchard * Wall Street Journal *
Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other things, Ever Closer Union? and The H-Word. He is an Editor at New Left Review and also writes for the London Review of Books.
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