Former journalist and JCG librarian Anu Ananth-Huggler talks to one of the greatest cultural critics of our time – Peter Conrad – about his latest book Dickens the Enchanter – an examination and exploration of the most powerful and potent imagination in literature. Conrad argues that Charles Dickens alone rivals Shakespeare and, in many ways, betters him. He critically and brilliantly charts how the forces of creation and destruction meet in Dickens, who, ultimately, in the unfinished murder mystery of Edwin Drood, was destroyed by his own creative genius.
