A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time, which is one of The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, it is ranked 339th on The Greatest Books of All Time, you also find it among The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and last but not least, actually, more importantly for this corner, it is one of my Best 50 Novels, although if I count them, they will become the Top 200- you find reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, in case you want to visit

 

A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time, which is one of The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, it is ranked 339th on The Greatest Books of All Time, you also find it among The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and last but not least, actually, more importantly for this corner, it is one of my Best 50 Novels, although if I count them, they will become the Top 200- you find reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, in case you want to visit

 

10 out of 10

 

I am reading A Dance to The Music of Time again https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-buyers-market-by-anthony-powell-10.html and this will be a joy ride, just like the first time- especially given the new ‘strategy’, I will try and keep them together, for some years back, I thought of ‘delayed gratification’ trying to prolong the extasy

 

Anthony Powell is divine – there is this truth you find in According to Mark, by Penelope Lively ‘the novelist has an infinity of choices, He chooses what is to happen’ ergo he or she is a sort of God, you can search on my blog for this, however, the reader is a demigod as well, since he/she chooses who enters their world…

Nick Jenkins continues with his adventures and we meet characters from the first novel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-dance-to-music-of-time-first-movement.html A Question of Upbringing, such as Kenneth Widmerpool, the latter appears ludicrous in the first place, but then he gains in complexity

 

Widmerpool has a lot of sugar poured on his head, one of the most memorable moments on my first read, for there was such a contrast between his pomposity and this situation where he is humiliated – inadvertently, the woman who did it wanted only a few spoons to fall on him, but somehow, the whole recipient poured out

The Orange American Psycho https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis-9.html could be compared with poor Kenneth Widmerpool, except the latter is so innocent when set against the villain who may blow up the world, he did set some of it on fire, plus prizes have started to explode

 

It is getting personal, I admit, there is fear for what will happen from now on, but let us return to A Buyers’ Market, where we also encounter flamboyant Gypsy Jones, Widmerpool is attracted to her, and then I thought the narrator will have coitus with her, when they share this intimate moment, but it did not happen

Kenneth Widmerpool is an arriviste and he wants to get to the top by any means, despite the fact that his father has been in the manure business, the son acts like the ultimate snob, he states at some point that he will have no further relations with a woman that would affect his career, words to that effect, granted, he had the sugar crisis to think of

 

Anthony Powell was compared with Marcel Proust, and they are both favorites of mine, and Kingsley Amis – they are my Holy Trinity I just realized - https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/memoirs-by-kingsley-amis-author-of-take.html had a few authors that he classified as ‘essential’ and Anthony Powell was one of them: they became friends, Amis and Powell…

 

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