Chemist Redlaw is haunted, quite literally, by his own grief — until a spectral double offers him a devastating gift: the power to forget every wrong and sorrow he has ever known, and to pass that same forgetting on to everyone he meets. What begins as mercy curdles into something far darker, as those around him lose not just their pain but the compassion built from having felt it. Dickens's last and strangest Christmas book is a haunting meditation on memory, suffering, and why some things should never be erased — criminally overlooked next to A Christmas Carol.
Chemist Redlaw is haunted, quite literally, by his own grief — until a spectral double offers him a devastating gift: the power to forget every wrong and sorrow he has ever known, and to pass that same forgetting on to everyone he meets. What begins as mercy curdles into something far darker, as those around him lose not just their pain but the compassion built from having felt it. Dickens's last and strangest Christmas book is a haunting meditation on memory, suffering, and why some things should never be erased — criminally overlooked next to A Christmas Carol.
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Charles Dickens (Portsmuth, 1812 – Gadshill, 1870) ha llegado hasta nosotros como el autor más importante e influyente de la literatura victoriana. Sus obras y su peripecia personal, íntimamente relacionadas, plasmaron no sólo el pulso social de su época, también el terrible estado moral de una sociedad atrapada en la desigualdad y las convenciones. Dickens experimentó la miseria, el éxito popular, la cárcel, el hambre... sólo logró cumplir con el más íntimo de sus anhelos, la libertad, entregándose a la literatura. Aunque muchas de sus obras gozaron de un extraordinario favor popular, baste decir que muchas de ellas fueron publicadas por entregas, en formato folletín; serían las críticas entusiastas de George Gissing y G. K. Chesterton las que encumbrarían a Dickens como el autor más importante de la literatura inglesa del siglo XIX.
