{"product_id":"9781804290798-different-speeds-same-furies","title":"Different Speeds, Same Furies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePowell, Proust and other Literary Forms\u003cbr\u003ePowell vs Proust\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe closing chapters of \u003ci\u003eDifferent Speeds, Same Furies\u003c\/i\u003e reach beyond their handlings of time to chart the historical novel from \u003ci\u003eWaverley \u003c\/i\u003eto \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'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40599046979681,"sku":"9781804290798","price":14.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34532414_a365ff3e-7dd7-4120-9657-41de33630dec.jpg?v=1747979207","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804290798-different-speeds-same-furies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}