Rodmoor

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POWYS is rather like Shakespeare in that his early work shows no faltering, but springs out, like the birth of Athene, ready-armed. Rodmoor was his second novel, and the only one that has never been published in England. It has nevertheless a quality all its own. It is a strange book, but grips the reader, holding him with a keen suspense. It is the most dramatic of all Powys’s books.

I have called it ‘strange’. The hero, Adrian Sorio, has been in a mental home and is engaged in writing on destruction as the key to existence; a theme to be taken up again, with differences, in Powys’s next story, Ducdame, and, much later, in The Inmates. These rather mind-staggering simplicities mean much in Powys. He is fascinated by the phenomenal universe and also by the strange possibility of a universe composed of not-being, perhaps of what we today would call ‘anti-matter’. His last published work was, with exact purpose, entitled All or Nothing.

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