Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before widely
available, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasia
about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the
degradations of conformism. It tells the story of Cressida
Hazeborough and her friend Vivien, two mordantly intelligent young
women trying to find their ways in a misty, pre-Depression Britain.
The pair have little patience for the company of the marriageable
men they are meant to endure, yet neither do they possess the means
to live as they might wish: together, and apart from the demands of
modern society. What's a girl to do? Having left school and taken
the sorts of London job available to women of their age and
station, remarkable arrives: a great foreign poet, playwright,
athlete, and soldier named Virgilio Vittore has successfully
conquered the tiny country of Trino, on the Adriatic Sea, and is
now governing it 'according to the laws of music'. Could this new
utopia be a refuge for Cressida and Vivien, and indeed all who seek
a life less ordinary? Or should the women, having arrived in this
chaotic land, where love, life, and politics must submit to the
rules of the beautiful, take to heart the advice of the novel's
title? Snobbish yet humane, reactionary yet camp, strait-laced yet
queer, old-fashioned yet radical, Go Back at Once reveals Robert
Aickman as a master not only of the 'strange story', but a satirist
deserving of a place alongside the mischievous and venomous greats
of the inter-war canon: Firbank, Compton-Burnett, Waugh, Powell.
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