Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit / Eine Frage der Erziehung

The twelve-volume cycle "A Dance to the Music of the Time" - repeatedly compared with Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" due to its content and formal design - is considered the main work of the British writer Anthony Powell and is one of the most important novel works of the 20th century. Inspired by the picture of the same name by the French baroque painter Nicolas Poussin, the cycle paints a multi-faceted picture of the English upper class from the end of the First World War until the late 1960s. From the perspective of the first-person narrator Jenkins, endowed with typical British humor and understatement - who, through many a biographical parallel, seems to be Powell's alter ego - the "Dance" offers a wealth of characters, events, observations and memories that provide a unique and revealing insight into the.