O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Powell
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Comic satire
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: G. F. H. Shadbold, Prudence Shadbold, Proserpine Gunning, Cedric Winterwade, Isolde Upjohn, Jason Price, Horace Grigham, Rod Cubbage
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Social issues, 1980’s, Novelists, Publishing or publishers, Ethics, Great Britain
- Locales: England
The Novel
To anyone familiar with the massive and magnificent twelve-volume novel series published by Anthony Powell between 1951 and 1975, A Dance to the Music of Time, this more recent comic satire will seem slim indeed. In fact, the book’s brief length (143 pages) and its narrow width in the British hardback edition make one think that Powell has written it to be literally a “slim” novel, confident that the critics will name it that anyway. This work is less a novel than a clever and witty literary indulgence, a satiric jab at creative and critical poseurs. The...
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