Peter Conrad

Dickens the Enchanter (MP3-Download)

Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller Ungekürzte Lesung. 1 Min.
Sprecher: Rintoul, David; Conrad, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography of his life through his storytelling – the characters, places and emotions conjured up across the entire range of his novels, stories, magazine articles and public readings. Peter Conrad, one of the great cultural critics of our time, repositions Dickens as a true giant of literature – a magician with the power to work wonders, at his most ambitious a god-like creator who formed his own idiosyncratic world and populated it with hundreds of irrepressibly lively and often terrifying characters. Peter argues that Dickens alone rivals Shakespeare and in many ways outdoes him. he pays tribute to Dickens's almost industrial productivity as a writer, but also calculates the physical and mental strain it involved and the consequent upheavals in his emotional life. The forces of creation and destruction meet in Dickens, who was ultimately – as he acknowledged in his unfinished murder story The Mystery of Edwin Drood – torn apart by his own frenetic genius. This is a celebration, an examination and an exploration of the most powerfully transformative imagination in literature, a force that was at once divine and devilish. Peter Conrad's own expansive critical mind makes this book both a gift if you already love Dickens and a key to the work if you have yet to read him.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399409186
• Artikelnr.: 71999119

Autorenporträt

Peter Conrad is a literary critic and cultural historian. His books include The Everyman History of English Literature; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Visionary Companion
1 On Planet Dick
2 In the Family
3 In the Dark
4 Cabbalistic Words
5 The Great Creator
6 Devilkins
7 In Arabia
8 Species and Origins
9 In the Carvery
10 In the Forge
11 Arranging the Universe
12 Heroes of His Own Life
13 The So Potent Art
14 In the Crypt
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

Exactly the kind of attention Dickens's writing demands and deserves, at once intimate and encyclopaedic. A compelling portrait of a writer who lived his work to the limit.