![]() His delight in play-acting is evident everywhere. Dickens is a protean author, able to project himself through hundreds of distinct, lively roles. The characters talk themselves alive, so to speak. He prefers to show off his characters as if they were on stage, to present them dramatically through their appearance, their gestures and, above all, their speech. While he can enter the minds of his characters and read their thoughts, this mode is not really congenial to him. And what emerges is an omniscient third-person narrator. However, before we are very far along, the machinery of the club and the note-taking by the Pickwickians are forgotten. ![]() The narrator, "Boz," is purportedly reworking the club papers into a coherent, unified story. ![]() Yet from the first the narrative takes a different form. From the full title of the novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, one might expect a collection of notes, letters, diaries, and minutes. ![]()
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