Defective Fiction...?
Hmmm, isn’t that what we have now?
Isaac Asimov said Agatha Christie was an outspoken hater of Jews and only was silent about it late in her career when it became so unfashionable she decided to shut up.
“I Have Always Imagined Paradise As A Kind Of Library. “
Jorge Luis Borgesđź“šđź“š
For a lit major, this woman in uneducated in the extreme!
Both books are a good read and the earliest movies, made from both, are also also very good. So was the Brit T.V. series of THE WOMAN IN WHITE.
The remakes of both movies aren't worth seeing.
It was the best of crimes, it was the worst of crimes...........
Historical revisionsim.
From Wikipedia:
Poe’s early detective fiction tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, “Each [of Poe’s detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed.... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?”
I read “The Moonstone”. My wife read “The Woman in White” and “No Name” as well. “The Moonstone” well-written, if a bit unwieldy. From a literaty standpoint I would put it a notch below Dickens at his best, but still worth the time. I elget the vibe that Collins woukd probably lean left if he were alive today.
The first was Edgar Allen Poe. He invented the genre.
Moreover, as Chandler pointed out, the American detective story shows "a world in which gangsters can rule nations and almost rule cities . . . it is not a fragrant world, but it is the world you live in." In that world, the detective provides a contrast as "down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean . . . a man of honor — by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it."
In the real world, who would you have on your side as an ally in a tough spot. Miss Marple? Lord Peter Wimsey? Hercule Poirot? Or would you rather have Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Jake Gittes, or Jim Rockford? And, in a deeper sense, American hard boiled detectives show how we too should act when in life we are forced to go down mean streets.
LOVE Collins!!!