“...at the termination of a given passage of time...the hidden gate goes down...and all scoring is doubled. This is perhaps an image of how we live. For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected...
My least favourite of all the series, at times dragged on and on, glimpses of misogyny, ludicrous story of Widmerpool joining a cult, but still through it all, wonderful writing, and a great sense of time passing.
My favourite three books of the series. Widmerpool at his finest bullying best, Jenkins getting more and more boring and the only interesting female character in the book, Pamela Flitton.
I am so far loving this - the language, the ideas, the characterisation all combine to make a wonderful portrayal of the march of time. My only bugbear is I feel he either does not like women or that I shall have to read further to get decent portrayals of any woman in the novel. I mean what is a l...
A Question of Upbringing is the first of 12 novels that make up Powell's opus A Dance to the Music of Time. The theme behind these books is the accidental nature of our relationships. The stories cover the lives of four main characters. In this first book, the setting is England in the 1920s, and...
I’ve been somewhere tonight that Ant has never been and frankly, I’m thinking maybe he’s right. Maybe it’s better to discuss how posh people lay the cutlery for dinner parties than life at the bottom. And I have only myself to blame. [Much, much later: the rest of this entry has been cut on the grou...
A little like Evelyn Waugh, but nowhere near as good. Set just before WW2, amongst the opportunistic not-quite-rich. The agents are cinematic and artistic; the patients are psychoanalytic. The would-be film maker plans a prototype reality TV documentary (though he imagines it won't make any money): ...
blurberoonies - ANTHONY POWELL’S magisterial cycle of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time, was published between 1951-75. There are 12 volumes altogether, totalling some 3,000 pages. It is an original and compelling saga owing much to Proust, PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. The title comes from the ...
We're in Venice this week, where we've just finished taking part in an international workshop on speech and language technology. Somewhere around the middle of the first day, it struck me that the setup was eerily similar to the opening of the penultimate volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. Nick...
Project Powell ends off with a whimper. It took me awhile to get through this last volume in the "Dance to the Music of Time" series. Now that I've read all twelve, I think I can make some sweeping generalizations about the series.Although the first book implies that the series is about four people,...
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