Minna Proctor on an encounter with Muriel Spark.
Also: Dickens' best novel?
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- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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1. This genre of memoirish criticism of an author seems to be remarkably in vogue! (Cf. the McLane...) I think I approve of the fashion, though it sometimes seems as if the personal and critical bits are a little tenuously connected.
ReplyDelete2. I do not know how I feel about these Dickens lists. I understand why people prefer Bleak House to the early novels, but I wish someone would sometimes stand up for Pickwick!