The English Novel At Midcentury

So far as the young were concerned Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles. Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the thirties. Michael Gorras innovation in this exciting study of the postwar generations major novelists lies in seeing the consequences of that dissolution in formal rather than political terms arguing that the novelists difficulty in represent