![]() ![]() It’s a great novel in which a sensitive reader can feel himself totally immersed, only to be shocked out of “willing suspension of disbelief” when its author breaks the fourth wall and begins commenting on his characters as fictional creations. Tragic to a truly disturbing degree, it is too subtle and complex to make grand opera, too often given to immensely long talky scenes, featuring too many characters, to translate well into film-though the attempt has often been made to adapt it for stage or screen. Dickensian in its large cast of vividly colorful characters and satire on the society of its time, it is not quite a picaresque. Its climax is mysterious and chilling, but it is not a thriller. ![]() It made me laugh a great deal, but it is not a comedy. Published in a series of magazine issues in 1868-69, this is one of the masterpieces by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. ![]()
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