Party Going
Party Going is a 1939 novel by British writer Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke).
 First edition cover (by John Banting) | |
| Author | Henry Green |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Hogarth Press |
Publication date | 1939 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 256 pp |
It tells the story of a group of wealthy people travelling by train to a house party. Due to a fog, however, the train is much delayed and the group takes rooms in the adjacent large railway hotel. All the action of the story takes place in the hotel.
Realism or symbolism?
Frank Kermode maintained in his essay "The Genesis of Secrecy" that behind the realistic plot of this novel there is a complex web of mythical images, the most important being the figure of the classical Greek god Hermes, which is strongly tied to one of the characters. This led Kermode to consider Party Going as a Modernist novel strongly influenced by the ideas of T.S. Eliot.
gollark: Or, well, the obvious alternative.
gollark: Maybe. On the one hand I at least like to think I'm vaguely better than average at actually paying attention to explanations for things and won't just immediately consign them to "outgroup → bad" or "not convention → bad". On the other hand probably most people think that since people are bad at comparing things. On the third hand, which I totally have, the alternative is to just assume people doing things are probably right, which seems wrong.
gollark: No, which is why I said I didn't care that much.
gollark: > that might be valid but itS' also an easy to abuse excuse to dislike almost anything> because you can always say that you don't see the pointThis is typically why people explain things.
gollark: I don't care a huge amount either way, but it's vaguely weird.
References
- Allen, Brooke (March 1993). "Reading Henry Green". The New Criterion. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- Yorke (ed.), Matthew. Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green. Viking Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Kermode, Frank (1980). The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative. Harvard UP.
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