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...CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, by Anthony Powell. The fifth installment of The Music of Time, in which Britain's most delicate and coruscating social Geiger counter moves through the class shambles of the late...
...Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. A witty novel about Britain in the '30s and that period's curious miscegenation between Society...
...Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. A witty novel about Britain in the thirties and that period's curious miscegenation between Society...
...Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. Installment No. 5 of The Music of Time, a seriocomedy of Britain between the two World Wars, which combines the antic savagery of Waugh with the social savvy of Proust...
...warning is perhaps too late. In Casanova's Chinese Restaurant,* too many events happen offstage (people get married and die, as it were, in parentheses), and Powell seems to have thrown away the novelist's Godlike privilege of always being in at the kill. But he retains other advantages: he does not fake, he does not invade bedrooms or invite others into his own; he is an artist of the public event. Powell seems to be giving an account of events that are still current, of living while he writes-unlike Proust in his cork-lined room...