A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell, 1951 date read 2/25/22

This is a collection of three novels. The narrator, Nicolas Jenkins, does very little with his life. The "novels" are him interacting with much more dynamic characters than himself. I believe the idea was to see how people and his opinions of them changed.

There isn't a story arc or any of the characteristics English professors tell you make a good novel. Nicholas is philosophically minded and seems to see people in the world as merely players in his personal drama.

There is period-appropriate racism and sexism.

Time to Read: 3 days

Rereadability: meh, kinda boring

Classic: once again, this one doesn't really conform to the definition of a novel I don't think it is a classic. It isn't bad. It's just...white bread when I expected zucchini bread with walnuts.