The Importance of Being Poirot: The Weight of Words Series
Autor Jeremy Blacken Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2022
Hercule Poirot as a character is masterfully imagined, but Black shows us how he is inseparable from Christie’s turbulent and changing world. He also illuminates significant social commentary in Christie’s fiction, and in so doing Black often uses his authority to vindicate Christie’s work from hastily, at times stupidly, applied labels and interpretations. He is especially magnificent in his chapters, “Xenophobia” and “The Sixties.” Black nevertheless gives due recognition to Christie’s critics when they have something relevant and reasonable to say, and hence the reader finds yet another service in Black’s comprehensive review of the reviewers over the expanse of Christie’s writing career.
For all this, Black proves himself to be a worthy history-teller because he can aptly ‘detect’ the meaning of stories that seeks to answer the past and guide the present. His erudition runs much deeper than his ability to navigate the stores of resources available on the subject, and the reader gets a glimpse of this early on when in the introduction he proffers his own defense for writing about the importance of a Hercule Poirot. Black writes, “the notion of crime had a moral component from the outset, and notably so in terms of the struggle between Good and Evil, and in the detection of the latter. Indeed, it is this detection that is the basis of the most powerful strand of detection story, because Evil disguises its purposes. It has to do so in a world and humanity made fundamentally benign and moral by God.” The Golden Age of detective novels represents much more than a triumph of a literary genre. It is in its own right a story of how the challenge to address the problem of evil was accepted. Its convergence with the plot-rich narrative of the twentieth century in the modern age renders Black’s account a thrilling masterpiece, seducing historians to read fiction and crime junkies to read more history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781587314254
ISBN-10: 1587314258
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: St. Augustine Press
Colecția St. Augustines Press
Seria The Weight of Words Series
ISBN-10: 1587314258
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: St. Augustine Press
Colecția St. Augustines Press
Seria The Weight of Words Series
Notă biografică
Jeremy Black is emeritus professor of history (University of Exeter) and prolific writer in the areas of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history. Some of his recent work includes George III: Madness and Majesty (2020) and England in the Age of Shakespeare (2019). He is also a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia).
Descriere
Jeremy Black examines Agatha Christie's literary craft as it develops alongside global military engagement. Christie, largely with her character Hercule Poirot, heralds the Golden Age of the detective novel and carves out a genre and chapter of European history whose focus is the problem of evil.