The similarity between Molière and Dickens illuminates what is essential to the power of each: the insight into self-deception that … More
Tag: Charles Dickens
163. (William Gaddis)
“So listen I got this neat idea hey, you listening? Hey? You listening . . .?” Thus ends J R. The … More
160. (William Gaddis)
Charles Dickens appears as a character in Gaddis’ The Recognitions, published in 1955, and it is hard not to believe that … More
28. (Charles Dickens)
He flickers through other writers, Doestoevsky (Smerdyakov begot by Uriah Heep) and Kafka, and reading The Trial I had convinced myself, … More
18. (Laurence Sterne)
Judge the bar to be set where you will, what follows is going to be worse than what I usually … More
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