The decades of interpretation and reinterpretation have created a widening chasm between how modern readers perceive the author and how they receive his work.
Tim Burton recently described Dodgson’s stories as “drugs for children” and Wonderland as a place where “everything is slightly off, even the good people.” When some of Dodgson’s photographs-he was an accomplished portraitist-were exhibited in 1999, a New York Times reviewer quoted Vladimir Nabokov (who had translated Alice into Russian) as saying there was “a pathetic affinity” between the photographer and the pedophilic narrator of Nabokov’s novel Lolita. Since the 1930s, biographers and scholars have questioned the nature of Dodgson’s relationship with the 10-year-old girl to whom he first told the story, and since the 1960s his work has been associated with the psychedelic wing of the countercultural movement. But if Alice has endured unscathed, its author has taken a pummeling.
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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, just released in movie theaters nationwide, is only the latest of at least 20 films and TV shows to be made from the book. Some colleagues knew him as a somewhat reclusive stammerer, but he was generally seen as a devout scholar one dean said he was “pure in heart.” To readers all over the world, he became renowned as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.Īlice was popular almost from the moment it was published, in 1865, and it has remained in print ever since, influencing such disparate artists as Walt Disney and Salvador Dali.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a teacher of mathematics at Oxford and a deacon of the Anglican Church.
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