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Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUBAnthony Powell and Marcel Proust must suffer from a similar limitation their grand works are so grand few people bother to read anything else I hadn't planned on any further Powell myself but this one kind of came my way and only took an evening to read A comic
Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUBI had heard of Powell but honestly picked this up on a whim drawn mostly by the striking cover art of the new UChicago Press edition and the description on the back which made it sound like a sardonic version of a PG Wodehouse tale Which is almost exactly what it turned out to be a genuinely funny though much darker and cynical take on feckless young Britons of a certain class Even just on the strength of this early work I'm surpris
Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUBI didn't think I'd like Powell but yes he's very funny and the viewpoint character in this one is fairly sympathetic Thinking about it this novel stands out for me in his early work because the atmosphere of his fictional Baltic city felt so emotionally real It's a highly stylised place not meant to be realistic in the traditional sense but the way the characters move around each other in the space of the city made me feel like I was learning something true about the 1930s in Europe
Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUBWhat impresses me most about re reading Powell’s early work is how much humour I missed in my younger years It is deadpan dry quiet humour but very funny nonetheless Another aspect of this novel is the way in which the crisis point is foreshadowed It is not at all obvious on the first reading but on rereading one is impressed by how it is done
Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUB'OMG Anthony Powell is writing a porno' was my reaction to the first few chapters And thus indeed it appeared to be albeit with all the explicit bits cut out Thankfully one senses that had Powell ever attempted full on porn It Would Not Have Ended Well But the style and tone of the novel's opening is such as one would expect to find on the obvious websites Later on though things sober up a bit and one is left with what was probably to be his most thoughtful novel until 'Hearing Secret Harmonies' NB I've not yet read 'Agents and Patients' Many will sn
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Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUBA sad story loosely based on a medieval German legend Can see how Powell honed his craft later on Enjoyed it well enough but wasn't spectacular
Venusberg Epub Ë Paperback venusberg free, Venusberg ePUBAnthony Powell's Venusberg written between the wars is a story of unrequited love and one man's way of dealing with it It is comic and tragic but all the time shows the qualities of refinement and gentility with which people of a certain class lived
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