![]() ![]() It was the novel, in the words of Dickens’s friend and biographer, John Forster, in which he took “all the world into his confidence.”ĭavid’s labile, one-crush-after-another nature was by all reports close to Dickens’s own. David Copperfield (1850) was Dickens’s characteristically rowdy variant on the inward investigation that William Wordsworth had undertaken in his long poem The Prelude. He also, later on, has a consoling, avuncular chat with his frightened boy-self. ![]() In The Personal History of David Copperfield, Armando Iannucci’s mad, loving, and brilliantly cinematic extrapolation of the novel by Charles Dickens, the grown-up hero-now a successful author-attends his own birth. The child’s is to see everything, feel everything, be everything, and live in the scraps and sparks of language by which he understands everything the writer’s is to wait, and hide, and grow, until the day when he steps in-pen in hand-to take possession. T he child and the writer are born at the same moment, to the same mother, each to his separate destiny. ![]() Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin Fox Searchlight Pictures Getty ![]()
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