{"product_id":"different-speeds-same-furies-powell-proust-and-other-literary-forms-hardcover","title":"Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and Other Literary Forms - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePerry Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell's greatest literary achievements.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose \u003ci\u003eDance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In \u003ci\u003eDifferent Speeds, Same Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, Perry Anderson measures Powell's achievement against Marcel Proust's celebrated \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe literature on \u003ci\u003eDance \u003c\/i\u003eis a drop in the ocean compared to that on Proust. Yet in construction of plot and depiction of character, Anderson ranks Powell 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe closing chapters of \u003ci\u003eDifferent Speeds, Same Furies \u003c\/i\u003ereach beyond their handlings of time to chart the historical novel from \u003ci\u003eWaverley\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eUnderworld, \u003c\/i\u003e and the breakthrough in epistolatory fiction of Montesquieu's \u003ci\u003ePersian Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, held together by what its author described as 'a secret chain which remains, as it were, invisible'.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerry Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other things, \u003ci\u003eEver Closer Union? \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe H-Word\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an Editor at \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e and also writes for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.5 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170694140039,"sku":"9781804290798","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/89cb14776bc7990479d91114f20a3904.webp?v=1733350070","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/different-speeds-same-furies-powell-proust-and-other-literary-forms-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}