badger11 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 A number of summer re-reads persuaded me to re-visit the C20. My default is to say he/she was a 'writer of their time', but the anti-semitism of Scott's Ivanhoe just irritated as did the gender stereotypes (I know there are genre excuses). Dickens's idealisation of women, Esther in Bleak House, was also a spoiler for me this time and I found her 'guardian' a bit creepy. However, the parasite Skimpole is one of the best, most unpleasant Dickensian villains. Anyway I thought I'd re-read a modernist, and though I struggled without a narrative plot for a page turnover, I did enjoy the descriptive language of Woolf's To The Lighthouse. The fluidity of the writing, the depiction of the thought process, means the descriptive elements are not laboured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Phil, I haven't read these classics you mention -- I may have seen the movie adaptations at some point but have no recollection of them -- so, please elaborate a bit. Do you mean that you simply saw the narratives through a different lens after the passage of time? Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger11 Posted November 8, 2020 Author Share Posted November 8, 2020 Quote Do you mean that you simply saw the narratives through a different lens after the passage of time? Yes, that is so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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