The rediscovery of Edward Upward's work excited enthusiastic
comment among reviewers and readers when in 1994 Enitharmon
published "The Mortmere Stories", "An Unmentionable Man" and a
revised version of "Journey to the Border". The five short stories
in this new volume, all written in recent years, reconfirm what
Edward Mendelson in the "Times Literary Supplement" has described
as Upward's 'unique perfected style ...that gives ordinary events a
hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were
entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political
judgements appropriate to the daylight world.'A dying man finds
affirmation in a career to which he had unsuccessfully given his
life, a retired and cautious man finally has the courage to ask the
woman he loves if she will come to live with him, a dying woman's
dreams of revolutionary events seem to be coming true - Upward's
stories give ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and
renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary. These five new,
carefully rendered, quiet tales retain that unique mix of art and
politics so crucial to the literature of the 1930s and 1940s for
which he and his circle were so famous.
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