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That he/she is exactly Alicia in the Country of the Marvels? Alone a story for children? A capricious collection of captivating nonsenses? A precursor of the dadaísmo? The dream of an entire culture - the Victorian Englishman - like Jaime of Ojeda affirms? They don't lack the interpretations of the work, but until Morton N. Cohen,,el biographer but the author's compliment - Dodgson that Lewis signed Carroll Talk -, it has provided incomplete approaches after 30 years of meticulous study of the topic. Alicia's sense... it is invaluable and such you see, like it happens to The thousand and one nights, the intent of capturing it is perfectly lazy.

It is known like the story was born. A golden afternoon of 1862, the professor of mathematics of the Christ Church College of Oxford fished in boat for the river in the three daughters' of Henry company Liddell, dean of that ability: Ina,14 years; Alicia,10; and Edith, the menorcita. As of habit, they requested to Dodgson that counted them a story and the one that preceded Alicia in the country of the Marvels came this way: I call you then, on the water, Alicia's adventures lower earth and of entrance the rabbit appeared. Alicia requested that she wrote it and Dodgson, almost Carroll already, I give him for navidad the story in a volume neatly manuscript and illustrated by the same one. And I forget the matter.

I refloat it the novelist Henry Kingsley: he/she had seen the copy on the table of the room of the decanato, he/she read it and I urge Mrs. Liddell to that it convinced the author that it published it. Surprised, this I consult to a friend, George MacDonald that wrote some of the best stories for children of the time. Who you takes the book to the house, he/she read it to their children and I confirm their opinion when the minor, 6 years old, exclaims when finishing the reading: God willing that story lasted 60.000 volumes." finally resolved, Dodgson-Carroll removes episodes of the original story, I add other to give him the necessary editorial extension and the book you publishes in 1865 in the version that today knows.

In 1932, when taking place the centennial of the birth of Lewis Carroll, the Alicia of the story, already octogenarian, he/she gave to know the " method " that the deacon, never orderly of cure and always single, it used to invent: under the look of the gobernanta, Prickett-depicted miss in the queen of heart-,Las three girls sat down in the big sofa with the one in the means, and it counted us stories that he/she went illustrating to pencil or with ink. He/she seemed to have an inexhaustible reservation of fantastic stories that built as he/she narrated them while he/she drew laborious the whole time in a long paper leaf. They were not always completely new stories,; it sometimes left of well-known elements, but they became new stories for the frequent improvisations that you/they opened unpublished and surprising possibilities."