Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1948

I went on a kick of trying to track down all of Dodie Smith's novels after I read I Capture the Castle, and the rest of them are not anywhere near as good but I still liked them.

i sometimes mean to find the rest of them, too! maybe i'll try again.

It Ends With Revelations is probably my favorite of them. Not great, but very readable.

"i mean, i like Joyce well enough, but i still appreciate the seriousness of Castle's engagement with the gendered anxiety of literary influence. and i prefer Smith's immersive realism to high modernism tbh."

Interesting to come up with this in the late 40s, years after Joyce has passed away. Surely the kinds of novels that Smith or Joyce were publishing were going to be published?

not sure i follow your question...i guess Smith still had a bee in her bonnet about Joycean experimental fiction in the 40s!

Sorry yes was just a reflection on the discussion I probably shouldn't have posted.