Party Going

This article is about the novel. For the album, see Partygoing.
Party Going

First edition cover
Author Henry Green
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher The Hogarth Press
Publication date
1939
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 256 pp

Party Going is a 1939 novel by British writer Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke).

It tells the story of a group of wealthy people travelling by train to a house party. Due to fog, however, the train is much delayed and the group takes rooms in the adjacent large railway hotel. All the action of the story takes place in the hotel.

Realism or Symbolism?

Frank Kermode maintained in his essay "The Genesis of Secrecy" that behind the realistic plot of this novel there is a complex web of mythical images, the most important being the figure of the classical Greek god Hermes, which is strongly tied to one of the characters. This led Kermode to consider Party Going as a Modernist novel strongly influenced by the ideas of T.S. Eliot.

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