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| Original Title: | A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement |
| ISBN: | 0226677141 (ISBN13: 9780226677149) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | A Dance to the Music of Time #1-3 |
| Characters: | Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool |
Anthony Powell
Paperback | Pages: 718 pages Rating: 3.95 | 4109 Users | 307 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #1-3) |
| Author | : | Anthony Powell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 718 pages |
| Published | : | May 31st 1995 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1955) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. British Literature |
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkins—a budding writer—shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. Considered a masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich panorama of life in England between the wars. Includes these novels: A Question of Upbringing A Buyer's Market The Acceptance WorldRating About Books A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #1-3)
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A "A Dance to the Music of Time" may well be one of the great literary works about the everyday life of the upper class in England and those attempting to break into it or rise within its social ranks. The writing is excellent, of course, but I rarely found myself transported by this work of meta-fiction about social climbing and high society, for example, in the same way in which Proust does. Powell is often considered an English Proust as the focus of the writing has to do with life andI've been meaning for some time to post a review of Dance to the Music of Time, which is pretty much my favorite book ever, but it's hard to know where to start. If you've read it, you know it's a masterpiece, and anything I say is irrelevant. If you haven't read it, I'm faced with the daunting task of persuading you that it's worth your time to get through it. Not only is it 12 volumes long, but everyone calls Powell the English Proust. Why read some inferior Proust wannabe when you can get the
First posting 6/11/2014 for A Question of UpbringingSecond posting 7/29/2014 for A Buyer's MarketFinal Posting 8/19/2014 for The Acceptance WorldThis edition includes the first three books of the 12-volume series. I'll "review" them individually, as that is how I'm reading them.A Question of Upbringing introduces us to who I assume will be the four main characters throughout the series. It is told in the first person by Jenkins (first name as yet unknown) and begins in "about the year 1921." The
This and the other four volumes are actually a total of 12 novels following a welter of British characters from 1914 until the mid 1960s. I am about to start reading the whole sequence for the third time. There is also a great BBC dramatization on DVD: Dance to the Music of Time.This is the British equivalent of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. I guess I find it closer to life as it was lived in the 20th century and certainly to the idea of our lives as a dance that characters keep returning to,
A book of this length will inevitably divide opinion but Im firmly with those who consider it a subtle, under-stated masterpiece worthy of comparison with The Great Gatsby and Brideshead Revisited. It goes into much greater detail than either of those two books on the social dynamics of debutant balls, country house parties and London private members clubs and as such may try the patience of those with a limited appetite for that kind of thing. But, like Fitzgerald and Waugh, Powell is really
Apologies to the people also in the book group, but I just CANNOT read 11 more books of this. I understand it's an examination of the English upper middle class, but stuff has to HAPPEN. It takes a great skill to talk about a character's day to day life, and make it worth reading, but I personally do not feel Powell has this skill. That being said I only read Book 1 out of 12, but to force myself to read 11 more when I really got no enjoyment out of the first, would be unfair to myself I think.
Spring is a season when nature awakes and everything comes into blossomYouth is a spring of human life consciousness awakes and everyone is full of high expectations And it is also a time of opening ones eyes and shedding some delusions.But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned or everything is because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.Anthony Powell literally makes long-forgotten conflicts
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