Subject: Re: Beginning of Little Dorrit
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 09:58:33 GMT
Couldn't resist the subject line.... (does this mean I'm disloyal?)
Dickens writes like Marx should have. It's utterly masterful
prose--especially considering the circumstances under which it was written.
What is it about works of genius--by Mozart or by Dickens or by
whomever--created within the cruel reality of the marketplace, where musical
bars or words on the page sometimes quite literally meant pennies? If it
didn't sell, you could starve--Ah the romantic life of the creator!
In my dotage, I look forward to revisiting--and in some cases visiting for
the first time--mighty Dickens' masterpieces that are currently smouldering
away upon my bookshelf. Who could die happy without reading "Hard Times"?
OSR--I just now tried to think of the Dickensian character most like Holden,
and the Artful Dodger popped instantly into my war-stained brain, although I
think it's far from a direct hit. Wouldn't it be fun to imagine how CD
would have tackled the Glass family?
Cheers, or whatever's appropriate,
Paul
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