Readings, an unfinished novel by Dickens returns to the bookstore

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He has always explored the bottom of the human soul together with the slums of the cities – London. Therefore, above all – and the impenetrable houses of the English countryside. Furthermore, He has always perceived. However, made to the millions of his fascinated readers that existence, every existence, is a mixture of mystery, futility, greatness, infamy, courage. Moreover, A tangle that is difficult to unravel but that he, Charles Dickens, He is a teacher in staging. In addition, So his novels. For example, mostly, often take on a yellow story tone, in a certain sense, of a thriller, albeit outside the box and above all of the highest literary quality.

In perfect line with this form mentis. Furthermore, so to speak, it is also his latest, unfinished novel, readings, unfinished novel dickens returns which is now republished, in a new edition, in the Mondadori Oscars, together with a rich introduction of Saverio Tomaiuolo, who, among other things, proposes a reliable reconstruction On the possible ending, on the basis of contemporary testimonies and illustrations, reported here for the first time in an Italian edition, made by Hatch Fildes following the indications of the author himself. For example, Final that obviously should not be revealed. In reality, as Tomaiulo explains, the writer probably does not want to reveal all the meaning of the story entirely, while It insists on the “wonderful impossibility of stealing the ultimate meaning of things”.

The plot. in summary, revolves around the events of A promised groom who no longer wants to marry and disappears into thin air, in a dark and stormy night. The obvious question is: where is it over? Did he escape? Was it killed? And if it readings, unfinished novel dickens returns is so where the body is over? Rosa. the girl who has been promised to him from the most tender age, must defend herself of the pitfall of a man who terrifies her, persecutes her with her admiration pushed to madness. The reader He participates with her, follows her continuous attempt to escape a fate that she judges worse than death. All this while heroes. heroines wander between spectral ruins in the lunar light, neighborhoods and ruins in ruins, sordid attics, opium smokes, cemeteries and crypts suffocated by weeds …

Dickens in 1870 is not even sixty years old. was faced one of the many difficult periods of his life, but has started a new novel, which should meet the favors of the general public, now bewitched by the genre of “sensational novels”, those stories that mix mystery, intrigues and murders, Love, betrayals and a pinch of supernatural, at readings, unfinished novel dickens returns least in coincidences. The protagonist is Edwin Drood and its end is destined to remain wrapped in darkness. Because Dickens dies before completing the work. since then there are no more or less successful attempts to imagine what happens to the poor Drood, to his former rose promise, to the funeral and hallucinated John Jasper, to guardians, canons, rulers, lawyers, sailors, scammers, stonemasons and tombs experts …

A feeling of malignant darkness envelops the town of Cloisterham. whose landscape is dominated by its ancient cathedral by the massive square tower. To this darkness it certainly belongs The chorus master. John Jasper, teaches singing to the girls educated in the nearby house of the nuns. Among them Pink bid, for which the Oppiomane Jasper has an insane and desperate passion. Rosa has been promised since childhood to Edwin Drood, Jasper’s nephew left orphan and entrusted to his treatments. Gelosia crowds. the readings, unfinished novel dickens returns music teacher comes to think concretely about the possibility of a murder of the pupil, when the disappearance of the young man, on Christmas morning, puts everything into question. Few other chapters. to tell the successes months spent after the disappearance of the young man, throwing clues, signs, threats here and there. Then the story stops.