# Party Going

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This article is about the novel. For the album, see [Partygoing](/source/Partygoing).

***Party Going*** is a 1939 novel by British writer [Henry Green](/source/Henry_Green) (real name Henry Vincent Yorke).

It tells the story of a group of wealthy people awaiting a train in London to go on vacation to France. Due to a fog, however, the train is much delayed and the group takes rooms in the adjacent large railway hotel. Almost all of the action of the story takes place in the hotel.

## Realism or symbolism?

[Frank Kermode](/source/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](/source/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](/source/T.S._Eliot).

## References

- Allen, Brooke (March 1993). ["Reading Henry Green"](https://newcriterion.com/article/reading-henry-green/). *The New Criterion*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110613142744/http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Reading-Henry-Green-4724) 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2026-01-05.
- Yorke, Matthew (ed.). *Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green*. Viking Press.
- Kermode, Frank (1980). [*The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative*](https://archive.org/details/genesisofsecrecy00kermrich). Harvard UP. ISBN 9780674345256.

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