Powell Anthony Powell

Afternoon Men (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226186924
• Artikelnr.: 72472075

Autorenporträt

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.