Anthony Powell's middle-brow modernism

The article deals with transformation of Modernist tradition in the 1930s English novel represented by Anthony Powell's "Afternoon Men" (1931). Such typological features of Modernism as epistemological doubt, mythological universalism, cyclic worldview, hermetic character of the fictitious world remain although certain themes, motives, ideas and images of Modernism are parodied and transferred into the sphere of mass culture.