After I posted yesterday I went to the Wallace Collection where I saw the original of the painting that gives its title to the novel sequence (and thus indirectly to this blog). I wish I could say that it gave me great inspiration to get on with The Valley of Bones, but in fact I have never liked Poussin much and this one was no exception. I don't understand why he felt the need to work in a colour scheme which makes everyone look as though they're lit up by a raging fire which, strangely, you can't see in the picture.
I am sure, however, that this is down to my lack of knowledge about The Art.
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A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. It has sometimes, erroneously, been referred to as a roman à clef. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. In 2008/09, following a similar and (for the most part) successful attempt to read Proust, we finally got around to it.
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