Messengers Of Day Memoirs Of Anthony Powell Volume Ii
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Anthony Powell
Author | : Hilary Spurling |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525521356 |
The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life. Insightful, lively, and enthralling, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal era in London’s literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic literary figure. Best known for his twelve-volume comic masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, the prolific writer and critic Anthony Powell (1905–2000) kept company between the two world wars with rowdy, hard-up writers and painters—and painters’ models—in the London where Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis loomed large. He counted Evelyn Waugh and Henry Green among his lifelong friends, and his circle included the Sitwells, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley Amis. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, Hilary Spurling—herself a longtime friend of Powell’s as well as an award-winning biographer—has produced a fresh and powerful portrait of the man and his times.
Messengers of Day
Author | : Anthony Powell |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Investigating Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time
Author | : Isabelle Joyau |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1994-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 134923284X |
Afternoon Men
Author | : Anthony Powell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-11-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 022618692X |
Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity than plot-driven narratives, Powell’s early works reveal the stirrings of the unequaled style, ear for dialogue, and eye for irony that would reach their caustic peak in his epic, A Dance to the Music of Time. In Afternoon Men, the earliest and perhaps most acid of Powell’s novels, we meet the museum clerk William Atwater, a young man stymied in both his professional and romantic endeavors. Immersed in Atwater’s coterie of acquaintances—a similarly unsatisfied cast of rootless, cocktail-swilling London sophisticates—we learn of the conflict between his humdrum work life and louche social scene, of his unrequited love, and, during a trip to the country, of the absurd contrivances of proper manners. A satire that verges on nihilism and a story touched with sexism and equal doses self-loathing and self-medication, AfternoonMen has a grim edge to it. But its dialogue sparks and its scenes grip, and for aficionados of Powell, this first installment in his literary canon will be a welcome window onto the mind of a great artist learning his craft.
Venusberg
Author | : Anthony Powell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 022631412X |
Venusberg is a city in an unnamed Baltic state, to which Powell's young hero, named Lushington, travels by ship in 1930 and falls in love with his own foreign Venus. This is a social comedy, and it's packed with Nazis, countesses, misunderstandings, fatal accidents, and assassins.