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Charles Dickens, Death and Mr. Pickwick, Farrar, Robert Seymour (illustrator), Stephen Jarvis, Straus and Giroux, The Pickwick Papers, writing
How do we come to write what we write? It’s a different question from “why”. It’s not so much a matter of reasons and motives, as of the road that lead to a particular book (or play, or story…) meant as a set of thematic, narrative and stylistic choices.
Each piece of work has its own How – long or short, a more or less disparate collection of influences, memories, circumstances, findings, likes, dislikes, long-chewed ideas and sudden epiphanies… Continue reading