Temporary Kings Book 11 of A Dance to the Music of Time edition by Anthony Powell Literature Fiction eBooks
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Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist they’re available only as e-books.
In this penultimate volume, Temporary Kings (1973), Nick and his contemporaries are at the height of their various careers in the arts, business, and politics. X. Trapnel is dead, but his mystery continues to draw ghoulish interest from readers and academics alike—as well as from his lover, Pamela Widmerpool. Kenneth Widmerpool, meanwhile, is an MP with mysterious connections beyond the newly dropped Iron Curtain, but he continues to be tormented by Pamela; a spectacular explosion, Nick can’t help but realize, is imminent.
"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune
"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times
"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker
“The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis
Temporary Kings Book 11 of A Dance to the Music of Time edition by Anthony Powell Literature Fiction eBooks
This is one of the top 2 or 3 books in the series. I read two lengthy passages twice because they were so good. Part of the problem with reviewing this book is that it contains some dynamite revelations about Kenneth and Pamela Widmerpool that I don’t want to spoil for you. Let’s just say that some of Kenneth’s dirtiest deeds are revealed and that Pamela’s vitriol was never more caustic. Unfortunately, what happens between them after the “seraglio party” fight remains sketchy.Pamela is an archetype or an incarnation, not only because she’s obviously meant to stand in for Queen Nyssia from Greek legend. Powell may have also intended her to be an incarnation of a destructive mythological figure like Circe, for example. In fact because of his interest in the occult, Powell may have believed that individuals can be actual reincarnations of evil, powerful spirits.
I recommend the section where “Books do furnish a room” Bagshaw explains to Nick why Kenneth Widmerpool, “the greatest bourgeois who ever lived”, is a Leftist. It’s insightful.
3.2 stars
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Temporary Kings Book 11 of A Dance to the Music of Time edition by Anthony Powell Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
That’s the best line in the book. It comes on page 191 and it finally roused me to a chuckle. And I’ll admit that it did pick up from there. In fact, we finally got the explosive Pamela & friends scene we’ve been working up to for six novels now and faceless narrator Nick picks over the scene in just the manner you’d expect. But really, not even Pamela can save this one. She does her best, parading through the novel in ever-more desperate states, giving Nick and his friends all they can handle, but as soon as she’s off-screen you can feel yourself begin to nod. It took me months to get through this novel, whereas the others took at most a couple weeks. Nick is, as ever, the recording non-entity, although Isobel gets in a few lines, which is rare.
So the last tenth of the novel was a good read, and now it’s on to the final sprint, God love us. Wish us luck. We’ll see you at the end.
it was great
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needs 4 more was great as I said
This book has quite a ;to of 'gossip' which I find engaging.
I am starting to get sad that this ride is going to end. Like Gyges getting a glimpse at another world, I am enjoying the view of something I’ll never experience.
It is a reasonable assumption that anyone contemplating the penultimate volume of Powell's wonderful novel sequence has read the preceding ten and does not need introduction or encouragement. All the virtues are here - exemplary technique, movement through time and memory (narrative strands unwrapped, layer within layer withour loss of momentum) and the theme of 'dance' recaptured in a series of beautifully worked set-pieces and interactions. Another pleasure of reading Powell is the occasional, never too obtrusive, placing of a single word or phrase to capture an atmosphere or moment. In the first sentence of this work, the smell of Venice, setting for a literary convention, is described as 'lacustrine', new to me but now not to be forgotten.
Now the narrator, Powell's alter ego Nick Jenkins, is in his 50's, comfortably ensconced in the literary establishment. But age and experience bring a tinge of melancholy underscored by his ongoing work on the 17th century writer Burton, best known for his large tome on that topic.As ever it is the large cast of
characters which engages the reader - eccentrics like the retired publisher Tokenhouse, new arrivals on the literary scene, as well as survivors from earlier episodes, including the fascinatingly awful Widmerpool.
As well as the familiar themes of literature and publishing Powell casts an oblique glance at the prevalence of Communist 'fellow travellers' and the espionage culture embedded in the English upper class in the post-war period.
However, perhaps his most challenging characters in this volume are the decreased novelist Trapnel, who remains a focus of much posthumous interest, and his former lover Barbara Flitton, still embroiled in a bizarre and increasingly seedy marriage to the newly ennobled Widmerpool. Barbara is clearly a disturbed and deeply unhappy woman. Powell describes but does not explore - he seems to have no wish to analyse, or indeed sympathise, with this troubled and seemingly doomed individual. Is this a strength or a failure on the novelist''s part? Read, enjoy, decide for yourself. Dave Wiĺlow
This is one of the top 2 or 3 books in the series. I read two lengthy passages twice because they were so good. Part of the problem with reviewing this book is that it contains some dynamite revelations about Kenneth and Pamela Widmerpool that I don’t want to spoil for you. Let’s just say that some of Kenneth’s dirtiest deeds are revealed and that Pamela’s vitriol was never more caustic. Unfortunately, what happens between them after the “seraglio party” fight remains sketchy.
Pamela is an archetype or an incarnation, not only because she’s obviously meant to stand in for Queen Nyssia from Greek legend. Powell may have also intended her to be an incarnation of a destructive mythological figure like Circe, for example. In fact because of his interest in the occult, Powell may have believed that individuals can be actual reincarnations of evil, powerful spirits.
I recommend the section where “Books do furnish a room” Bagshaw explains to Nick why Kenneth Widmerpool, “the greatest bourgeois who ever lived”, is a Leftist. It’s insightful.
3.2 stars
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