on 12/8/01 1:48 AM, Robin Hamilton at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dickens is perhaps the closest. Though I wouldn't myself pick Pip's Fortunes
> as the keynote -- Little Dorrit? Bleak House?
Bleak House - absolutely. Only discovered it about ten years ago, and I've
already read it more than once (better the second time around), and will do
so again. And I've read the beginning two-three pages many many times, but
Dickens is good for a poet. I love the iambics at the beginning of Tale of
Two Cities (it was the best of times, etc).
> But what does come up against The Brothers? Not even (pace Matthew) Trish.
> Dat's the biggie. Tolstoy gossiped, Dostoevsky wrote novels.
And agree about the Brothers and time to read that again. I was only 17 and
full of youthful existential angst when I read it so it should be better the
second time around.
Cheers,
Jill
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