![]() ![]() His most startling and creative conception is the title character. Clinch endows Dickens’s snapshots with a three-dimensional, often alarming, life. ![]() Here, as there, he fleshes out characters and events often very lightly sketched in the original. he creates a penumbra of invention around the original novel ensuring - caveat lector! - that you may never be able to think of it in the same way again. By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, he has, without imitating Dickens, entered into the phantasmagoric realm that is the great novelist’s quintessential territory, and, like the fat boy in Pickwick, he triumphantly succeeds in making our flesh creep. ![]() A Christmas Carol, despite the multitudinous saccharine versions souped up on stage and screen every festive season, is a pretty damn scary thing, but Jon Clinch’s prequel to it is black as hell, outstripping even Dickens’s remorseless and painful probings of his protagonist’s soul. ![]()
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