'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in
the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were
dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that
postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the
myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's innovation in this exciting
study of the postwar generation's major novelists lies in seeing
the consequences of that dissolution in formal rather than
political terms, arguing that the novelist's difficulty in
representing human character in what Wyndham Lewis called a
'shell-shocked' age is itself a sign of that loss of belief. But
while most studies of this generation end with the coming of World
War 2, Gorra follows these novelists throughout their careers. The
result is a book that not only shows how the British novel's
increasing consciousness of its own limitations stands as a mirror
to the country's loss of power, but also provides memorable
portraits of four major twentieth century writers.
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