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David Copperfield " review by Alfred Hickling

Octagon, BoltonDickens singled out David Copperfield as his "favourite child". It's no coincidence that the book was also Freud's favourite work of fiction " Dickens's autobiographical creation is a perfect illustration of the child becoming father to the man, and, as a study of how early experience shapes later fears and neuroses, it is arguably the first psychoanalytical novel.Deborah McAndrew's adaptation is not s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:30pm on November 26, 2010

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