Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell is the fifth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, one of The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, and part of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, it sits at 339th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more importantly for this obscure corner, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites waiting for you on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel if you prefer

 

Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell is the fifth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, one of The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, and part of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, it sits at 339th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more importantly for this obscure corner, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites waiting for you on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel if you prefer

 

10 out of 10

 

A Dance to The Music of Time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-acceptance-world-by-anthony-powell.html is spectacular when read for the second time, but I just realized it will be blissful when taken on for the third, sometime in the next few years, and since I prophesize here, why not speak of the fourth round…

 

One of the fabulous aspects is how Widmerpool has correspondents in real life, today, the most prominent would-be Orange Widmerpool, the arriviste that has entered the White House, and then demolished some of it, he is busy turning the world upside down, attacking the Pope, Meloni, over the past few days…

Oh, and he posted this image of him as Jesus – why not, he is the best, smartest, and apparently, holiest – only to change the tune, say he thought he was a doctor in what was clearly a representation of Christ, then they said it was a joke, indeed, the whole spectacle is a circus and let me stop here, before I get sucked into this nightmare

 

The Idiot https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-idiot-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky.html is mentioned in Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant: Mona – is presumably – Nastasya Filippova, we have quite a few surprises in here, the whole book is just like the other volumes divine, Erridge travels to China first, then to Spain

He is on the side of the Republicans, but while they fight against Franco, they are a divided bunch, Marxists, Trotskyites, anarchists, and this aristocrat will in the end leave Spain acrimoniously, he is in conflict with all, there was a danger that they could have shot him, nevertheless, he is sick and taken to a nursery

 

Erridge does not stay long, he likes to be sick somehow, but his brother, Hugo Tolland, has a car accident and the attention turns to the latter, ergo if the limelight has changed, the former has to cut short his convalescence…St John Clarke had been so close to Erridge that he was asked to take care of business while the man is in Spain -

Not the accounting, but the artistic side, notwithstanding that, the writer who has been inspired by John Galsworthy https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-man-of-property-first-novel-of.html dies (a spoiler alert might have been needed somewhere above) and the huge paradigm shift takes place then…this was Aristotle’s idea

 

Aristotle said that a play, work of art – they did not have novels back then, or did they, in some form?- has to have a major change, like the one in Oedipus https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/03/oedipus-rex-by-sophocles-translated-by.html when he finds he had killed his father and married his mother

 

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