From a View to a Death

Resumen del libro

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud-such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars, delving into subjects as various as psychoanalysis, the film industry, publishing, and (of course) sex. More explorations of relationships and vanity than plot-driven narratives, these slim novels reveal the early stirrings of the unequaled style, ear for dialogue, and eye for irony that would reach their caustic peak in Powell's epic A Dance to the Music of Time.

From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.

Written from a vantage point both high and necessarily narrow, Powell's early novels nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and what makes people behave as they do. Filled with eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powell's work is achingly hilarious, human, and true.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Anthony Powell (1905-2000) se educó en Eton y Ox ford, trabajó como editor en Duckworth, como guio nista para la Warner Brothers y fue editor literario de la revista satírica x{0026}lt;em Punchx{0026}lt;/em . Como novelista recibió nu merosos galardones, como el James Tait Black Me morial Prize o el W.H. Smith Award. Su obra maestra es x{0026}lt;em Una danza para la música del tiempox{0026}lt;/em , una serie de doce novelas escritas entre 1951 y 1971. En Anagrama se han publicado las cuatro trilogías que componen el ciclo, Primavera , Verano , Otoño e Invierno , con un extraordinario éxito de crítica.x{0026}lt;/p