Different Speeds, Same Furies

Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms

Different Speeds, Same Furies
Perry Anderson
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8 Nov 2022 UK
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9781804290798
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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 more 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 well 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' .
An incisive and challenging critique of the European integration process. The book could be read for one eye-opening section alone. Witty, aphoristic and cogent -- Martin Westlake * European Political Science (for Ever Closer Union? ) * There are few writers whose name constitutes an irresistible incitement to find out what they have to say - on whatever the subject may be - but I know I am not alone in putting Anderson in that very select company -- Stefan Collini * The Nation (for Spectrum) * Anderson raises the task of commentary to the level of primary intellectual exploration. He reminds us of the inadequacy of confining the search for great stylists to fiction -- Geoff Dyer * Independent (for The Origins of Postmodernity) *
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other things, Ever Closer Union? and The H-Word. He is an Editor at New Left Review and also writes for the London Review of Books.
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ISBN-13: 9781804290798
Published: 8 Nov 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 224

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