I think that probably is true. By the time you get to Out Mutual Friend you can see it out in the open.And this is a Dickens perpetually in revolt.
Does it need solving or can both be held in a kind of double bond, working for and also against each other?And to solve the case you must answer who is the greater Dickens the Dickens who is in contempt of his audience or no
The architecture of that novel is something else - the crisscrossing of lives seemingly unconnected - as much as I love Great Expectations, I think Bleak House might be his greatest achievement.I'm about 300 pages into bleak house. It's requiring a bit of discipline, but when I get going with it, it's very readable. I feel like he's setting off a load of stories that are slowly winding together tighter and tighter. You get a bit more character with each round and after a while, the world gets built.
And I like his various voices and the fact he mixes up the spellings for the accents and how different people talk. Nothing so far to match that opening famous couple of pages, about the smog, but I really love that bit.
In Our Mutual Friend one of the characters says ‘He do the police in different voices’ or words to that effect, which was going to be the original title of The Wasteland by Eliot.I'm about 300 pages into bleak house. It's requiring a bit of discipline, but when I get going with it, it's very readable. I feel like he's setting off a load of stories that are slowly winding together tighter and tighter. You get a bit more character with each round and after a while, the world gets built.
And I like his various voices and the fact he mixes up the spellings for the accents and how different people talk. Nothing so far to match that opening famous couple of pages, about the smog, but I really love that bit.