The centenary of literary Modernism

<div>In this week's Book Club podcast, we're going back 100 years to 1922 – the year which is usually seen as heralding the birth of literary Modernism. My guests are Richard Davenport-Hines, author of <em>A Night At The Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party</em>, and the scholar and critic Merve Emre, who has worked extensively on Joyce and Woolf. I asked them how much Modernism really did represent a break with the past, and how much it looked like a coherent movement at the time. Along the way we learn what Proust and Joyce found to discuss when they met, why Virginia Woolf was so rude about <em>Ulysses</em>, and what the mainstream story of Modernism left out...   </div>