Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Aatif Rashid's Book Club.

I'm Aatif Rashid, and on today's episode, we will be discussing the fifth novel in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant.

Now, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, as we'll see, is different, very different tonally than At Lady Molly's.

As I emphasized with our last podcast, At Lady Molly's was very comedic in its structure, in its content.

It focused on marriage, so it makes sense that it was a comedy in all senses of that word.

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is not a comedy.

It is a tragedy.

Arguably, it is the saddest novel so far in Anthony Powell's series.