Different Speeds, Same Furies

An exploration of Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell's greatest literary achievements. There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies , Perry Anderson measures Powell’s achievement against Marcel Proust’s celebrated In Search of Lost Time . The literature on Dance is a drop in the ocean compared to that on Prous