Bibliograph

A Question of Upbringing, Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell, Anthony

Type

Label

A Question of Upbringing, Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell, Anthony

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A Question of Upbringing

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

966559302

Responsibility statement

Powell, Anthony

Series statement

A dance to the music of time, book one

Sub title

Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time

Summary

Anthony Powell?s universally acclaimed epic -- Chicago "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. ... Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."?Elizabeth Janeway, -- New Yorker "There is no other work in the annals of European fiction that attempts meticulously to recreate half a century of history, decade by decade, with anything like the emotional precision or details of Powell?s twelve volumes. Neither Balzac?s panorama of the Restoration, nor Zola?s chronicles of the Second Empire, nor Proust?s reveries in the Belle Epoque can match a comparable span of time, an attention to variations within it, or a compositional intricacy capable of uniting them into a single narrative. ... The elegance of this artifice was only compatible with comedy."?Perry Anderson

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