“There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great:
Parade’s Endis one of them”, claimed W.H. Auden in 1961 (qtd. in
Harvey, 467), echoed by Graham Greene, who asked in rhetorical fashion: “[h]as a novel ever before been lit as carefully as a stage production?” (10). For Anthony Burgess, it is “the finest novel about the First World War” (qtd. in Mill, 219) and Malcolm Bradbury considered it “a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which it is exemplary” (qtd. in Hawkes, 13). In spite of such authoritative endorsements,
Parade’s Endhas undergone changing fortunes ever since the four novels composing the series were published in the 1920s. It was only in the late 1990s that a more sustained and lasting wave of critical interest in the tetralogy and…
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Citation: Colombino, Laura. "Parade's End". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 December 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2926, accessed 21 November 2024.]
