Anthony Powell A Life - Softcover

Barber, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585677108 ISBN 13: 9781585677108

Verlag: Overlook Pr, 2005

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"When future generations wish to understand the texture of 20th-century English life, their best source will be Powell, and A Dance to the Music of Time."

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In the first full-length biography of Anthony Powell, Michael Barber--publisher, journalist, and man-about-town--takes a close look at the man and the writer. He finds someone whose temperament was often at war with his upbringing. The son of an army officer, educated at Eton and Oxford, Powell chose as his closest friends people like Malcolm Muggeridge and the composer Constant Lambert, who were not out of the top drawer, or the one below it. Although happily married for more than sixty years to Lady Violet Pakenham, the daughter of an earl, he admitted that he had always been attracted by girls who looked as if they'd slept under a bush for a week. Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material. He pays particular attention to the entre-deux-guerres, that sharply divided cultural interlude when the artists and good-timers with whom Powell identified in the twenties were followed, in the thirties, by the politicians and the prigs. Amusing, candid, and highly entertaining, this is a delightfully readable account of the author

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• Verlag: Overlook Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1585677108
• ISBN 13: 9781585677108
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338