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Different Speeds, Same Furies - Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms (Hardcover)
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Different Speeds, Same Furies - Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms (Hardcover)
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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 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 depiction of
character, Anderson ranks Powell above him. How much do particular
advantages of this kind matter, and why is Powell an odd man out in
English letters? At once so similar and dissimilar, the intricate
retrospectives of the two novelists on bohemia and Society,
upbringing and mortality, relationships and personality, invite
interrelated judgements. The closing chapters of Different Speeds,
Same Furies reach beyond their handlings of time to chart the
historical novel from Waverley to Underworld, and the breakthrough
in epistolatory fiction of Montesquieu's Persian Letters, held
together by what its author described as 'a secret chain which
remains, as it were, invisible'.
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