Parade's End

[poliphilo]

Parade's End the book is one of the great Modernist novels- a monumental text with even fewer readers than Ulysses or To The Lighthouse. Stoppard's TV adaption turns it into Merchant Ivory; it looks lovely, the actors are superb, but I don't quite see the point. If you take away the density you take away the distinction. It's magnificent but it's not Ford. 

Comments

[sovay]

If you take away the density you take away the distinction. It's magnificent but it's not Ford.

Does any of the language survive? (I have not read or seen either.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Very little. Most of the dialogue is about identifying people. "Hello, I'm the curate". "That's X; he taught me to box at Oxford".