· Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is as exotic and spicy as Chinese cuisine. In Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant Anthony Powell occupies himself by comparing the ways and styles of married life of the different personages/5. · Full of Powell’s typically sharp observations about life and love, Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant offers all the rewards and frustrations, pleasures and regrets of one’s thirties. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. · Despite the fact that, due to its seasonal framework, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant takes place in the midst of the summer cycle, an autumnal mist descends upon proceedings. The humour, so wryly observed by Powell, is still there, but a new gravitas reveals itself, a grappling with the moral conundrums of alcoholism and suicide/5(40).
Full of Powell's typically sharp observations about life and love, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant offers all the rewards and frustrations, pleasures and regrets of one's thirties. "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. In this, the fifth volume of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, the narrative takes a decidedly sombre turn. Despite the fact that, due to its seasonal framework, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant takes place in the midst of the summer cycle, an autumnal mist descends upon proceedings. This item: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant. by Anthony Powell Paperback. £ In stock. Sent from and sold by Amazon. £ delivery. At Lady Molly's (Dance to the Music of Time 04) by Anthony Powell Paperback. £
Full of Powell’s typically sharp observations about life and love, Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant offers all the rewards and frustrations, pleasures and regrets of one’s thirties. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. In Anthony Powell’s Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, an important international event exists in the background: the Spanish Civil War. Erridge Tolland, the leftist Earl of Warminster, decides that he should go and aid the Spanish Republican government that was threatened by Franco’s Nationalist coup d’etat. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is a novel by Anthony Powell (ISBN ). It forms the fifth volume of the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in
0コメント