The Charioteer
(MARY RENAULT)
Mary Renault is best known for her Greek historical novels ?
works such as Fire From Heaven, The Last of the Wine and The
King Must Die. The Charioteer is conclusive evidence of what was
already obvious: Renault is a great novelist, not "just" one of the
outstanding historical novelists of all time. Set in England
during World War Two, in the dark days after the retreat from Dunkirk, The Charioteer is a novel
about love. A "novel about love" rather than a romance, because,
although it is set in and around hospitals (drawing on Renault''s own wartime
experience), it is certainly not your typical hospital romance. Though it is
very obviously a post-war English novel, The Charioteer has a certain
timeless feel to it; the use of explicit links to Plato''s Phaedrus,
which would have seemed contrived in weaker hands, doesn''t seem at all
inappropriate. Those who appreciate Renault as a novelist, not just for her
historical settings, should definitely not pass this one by.
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