No matter how much we legitimately praise Powell’s novels of the 1930s, there’s still no question that A Dance to the Music of Time, from its very first pages, represents an almost unimaginable advance in skill, commitment, and perception. But there is a point in Venusberg where that previously unseen ability briefly shimmers into being.
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
A work of promise …
… On Venusburg by Anthony Powell | Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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