Charles Dickens is a famous English novelist and one of the best known in world literature, who was able to masterfully handle the narrative genre, mood, the tragic sense of life, the irony with sharp social criticism and algid and the descriptions of people and places, both real and imagined.
He was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth. He spent his childhood in London and Kent, places frequently described in his works. He left school and was forced to work from a very young, his father being imprisoned for debt. Most of his training as a self-made, and his novel "David Copperfield" (1850) is partly autobiographical and trasunta their feelings about it. From 1827 began to prepare for work as a reporter, in a publication of an uncle, The Mirror of Parliament, and for the liberal daily The Morning Chronicle.
In 1833 he published The Monthly Magazine, a series of articles descriptive of everyday life under the pseudonym Boz. Published in 1836, following this style, "Sketches by Boz". This work was followed by "The Pickwick Papers" (1836-1837), a work in a similar style of comics, who noted an editorial.
He edited the weekly Household News (1850-1859) and All the Year Round (1859-1870), wrote two travel books,American Notes (1842) and Images of Italy (1846), Bleak House (1852-1853), Little Dorritt (1855-1857), Great Expectations(1860-1861), Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865), Oliver Twist (1837-1839), the famous antique shop (1840-1841), Barnaby Rugde (1841), Martin Cguzzlewit (1843-1844)), Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Hard Times (1854), Tale of Two Cities (1859) andThe Mystery of Edwin Drood, was left unfinished.
His family life was eventful, with several failed marriages and many children.
Today has been put in a bad mood the Minister of Economy, Luis de Guindos, without uttering the term that has been said that for March, will go into recession, or is it just reinforces my article last week, NO SOLUTION. Like all politicians in Spain are hateful by mendacity. Today I will devote my space who had a policy of this melodrama melodrama and a play of this play, a trip to Moon Free and even without a passport. Today, February 7 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the novelist extravagant and melodramatic which often has exerted an influence on the imagination of readers, some even mental straws were reading his work.
Charles Dickens was the referent of the time he lived. His writings shape our perception of Victorian London, although his opponent and enemy of his works, Walter Bagehot, recognized that in its evocation of London life, Dickens was a special correspondent for posterity and in verad not wrong. His characters of Scrooge and the Artful Dodger Mr. Micawber and Uriah Heep m today, are avatars of the "English".
The term "Dickensian / a" brings to mind not so much the man or the characters he created the world, the characters are living because on one hand, a scene with red nose comedy and surreal humor, however, another, something dirty, an impoverished society full of abused children, lawyers arguing, sadistic teachers and effigies guard himself.The Claire Tomalin's biography begins with a "cast list" of people who knew Dickens, and real-life characters are so tantalizingly diverse as novels, Fighting, fighting for the musicians, actresses, kids, dancers, politicians, prostitutes, social outcasts, hypochondriacs, philanthropists, elegant and heiresses.
It's hard not to be seduced by the mix of life and work of the comic and the grotesque wholeheartedly graphically. A fondness for reporting that many of the tributes of the Bicentennial. The books are only part of this event, including exhibitions, lectures, plays, lectures, a gread new film starring Ralph Fiennes Expectations, adaptations of BBC of the novel and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a drama entitled parody of the old desolate store things and a series of mysterious events, including a Dickens festival in China and half marathon for lovers of Dickens, organized by Rice University Houston (Texas).
The most important new books were chosen by Tomalin and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. While many previous accounts of the life of Dickens have been oppressively displaced, they are successfully elected. Tomalin is a biographer calmly sure that previous literary themes have included Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys. Here is a humanitarian job of capturing the complexities of Dickens. Douglas-Fairhurst is a scholar of Oxford, author of Victorian afterlife (2002), in which he reproduced the cultural environment of the nineteenth century. Who is involved in his legacy is different versions of it: the radical Republican, the hypnotist, the sentimental, the protector of orphans, the lover of the circus, the desperate father.
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But above all, in his opinion, "to establish that the London nineteenth century before the eyes of others and inadvertently held the little ones who are discriminated against by the society that provides ".
Douglas-Fairhurst gives a somewhat different perspective. Reflects that: "No writer seems to have fewer surprises. Not be afraid, it seems more convenient to the reassuring certainties of the retrospective biographical." This is because the name of Dickens has become shrouded in myth.Douglas-Fairhurst urges us to "unlearn much of what we know." For him, self-promotion, the novelist irrepressible vivacity often, but only half-a visible, "a sad figure, a type so rare and strange."
The myths have accumulated about Dickens because it was a very popular writer. Relentlessly energetic, he longed for the friendship and admiration. Douglas-Fairhurst, describes how "concerned about the relationship between popular fiction and the public. "Dickens wanted his readers to be plunged in the world, it had created. On page and in person was always giving the impression that he was accepting the trust of their fellow citizens. was to reduce their public statements imaginary indefinite. " That, that was the engine of their success.
Especially loved a Christmas story (1843), in which Dickens embalmed an ideal image of the celebrations of Christmas as an opportunity for family gatherings, imbued with hope and joy. Difficult though it is to believe, that revived interest in the festival at a time that was in decline. It is far from absurd to call him The Man Who Invented Christmas. This only I could do, Dickens, and Rajoy and ... far from Zapatero. Currently living here 200 years ago, but from a position of view of the sixteenth century. No, it is not easy.
While this is exactly the type of label that Douglas-Fairhurst cheesy want to delete, but suspected that Dickens would have liked. He was pleased when his creations took on a life beyond the book. In fact, as Douglas-Fairhurst shows felt the need to keep them alive and instead of drawing a line in his stories, they would journey to the afterlife, but it was always realistic, that is, a relationship difficult to understand, so it is Dickens and, Leire Pajin.
But Dickens was alarmed to see the reality of their activities beyond writing. Since his death in 1870 has undergone more than one hundred biographies, this sure would have liked. The first was that of John Forster, played by Tomalin as "essential" friend, scholar and courteous, however, "no Puritan." His first volume, which appeared in 1872, surprisingly revealed that Dickens's father had been confined to a debtors prison and that, of 12, Dickens had contributed to the household economy, working in a factory sticking labels on the starting pots nails. A childhood at all easy, but "living" making it even bigger. So called "the cheesy label character." The Tomalin this, spent his life writing bad Dickens, was a millionaire and we realized the 200 years. I took a good part of my life writing bad politicians who are bad with solemnity and it costs me money.
The precise nature of Dickens's relationship with Nelly has long been a source of anxiety and speculation. Tomalin, describes with sensitivity about the darkness that clouded the last years of Dickens, is less wary of venturing intelligent guesses about what other biographers, more cautious, concluding that the fruit of this marriage was born a son who died in infancy . You never knew when or how.
In this sense, Tomalin disagreed with Slater and Ackroyd. But both had an ally in Anne Isba, that women Dichens writes that Nelly became the lover of Dickens and gave "at least" a child.
In his little book, Isba, one of the many unpublished volumes are being published for the bicentennial narrates part of these events .. Their huge range of Dickens suggests inexhaustible capacity to excite not only the biographical speculation, but also delve into the historical and imaginative audacity.
Finally, citing a little-known autobiographer and asks: Hey, are those who say that novelists have no imagination? Is that some of my best friends are biographers.
