1. I wasn't going to write about "Dance to the Music of Time" till I finished the full re-reading (am at volume 7 of 12) but wanted to recommend this fine John Banville piece on Powell:https://newrepublic.com/article/151605/anthony-powell-book-review-john-banville …
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Ah, yes, Widmerpool...
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"Curiously languid" is a particularly apt description. I read the first volume (A Question of Upbringing) & found it so languid I never read another. Somebody (Evelyn Waugh?) called it "tedious and over-praised" and I thought "Yup."
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I’m sure you’re not too eager to go straight into another huge modernist multi-volume epic, but any chance you get to Dorothy Richardson some day?
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