The Penny World by Edward Blishen (.ePUB)

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The Penny World by Edward Blishen
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Overview: It could take you four chapters to get used to the pace of this remarkable book. George Eliot complained about the pace in Fielding, just as today you may find yourself complaining about the pace in George Eliot; but then, each of them had the pace of other times.
Edward Blishen is out of time altogether. He will abandon a narrative so that it becomes a plank stretched out over a void, only to return to it in another chapter. He will move amongst the seven decades of his own life as the fancy takes him, or abruptly shift scenes. This, for example, is Blishen on the way to work one morning. A commuter’s chat – the railway line – under a bridge, the graffiti ‘Piss off Everyone‘ – the BBC – a secretary at the BBC, ‘a young woman delightful for her skirts‘ – the Underground – a fantasy image of the great satirists led by Swift coming down the elevator – an Irish harpist. Put like this it sounds familiar, for this reads like those strange chapter headings in George Borrow.
And just as Borrow is fascinated by Borrow, Blishen is fascinated by Blishen. The man even tells you about his dreams for page after page only to stop: ‘It was the need to pee which awoke me‘. We are then treated to a paragraph about what it is like to pee in old age. This is a very odd book.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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