Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596916052 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, and many other books.. Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst
A playfully brilliant re-creation of one of the most-loved detective stories of all time; the companion book no Holmes fan should be without.Eliminate the impossible, Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. Using the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key, Bayard unravels the case, leading the reader to the astonishing conclusion that Holmes – and, in fact, Arthur Conan Doyle – got things all wrong: The killer is not at all who they said it was.Part intellectual entertainment, part love letter to crime novels, and part crime novel in itself, Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong turns one of our most beloved stories delightfully on its head. Examining the many facets of the case and illuminating the bizarre interstices between Doyle's fiction and the real world, Bayard demonstrates a whole new way of reading mysteries: a kind of "detective criticism" that allows readers to outsmart not only the criminals in the stories we love, but also the heroes and sometimes even the writers.. But as Pierre Bayard finds in this dazzling reinvestigation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, sometimes the master missed his mark
(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly French literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard (How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read) returns to the close reading and iconoclastic analysis of classic detective fiction he did in Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? with this audacious revisionist view of one of the best-known mysteries of all time. Arguing that Sherlock Holmes often drew false conclusions, Bayard picks apart the apparently airtight case Holmes assembled in The Hound of the Baskervilles and offers an alternative solution. All rights reserved. He goes a step further than with the Agatha Christie whodunit by suggesting that Holmes erred in his identification not only of the murderer but of the
"Shaky Foundation" according to Kevin Killian. Many biographers have painted a picture of Arthur Conan Doyle as neurotic especially in regards to his famous literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, and have accused Conan Doyle of "hating" Holmes enough to kill him (as he did in the short story "The Final Problem." The hate grew exponentially, say these critics, when Conan Doyle was forced by a hungry public to revive Holmes in The Hound of the Baskerv. A silly and mostly harmless exercise in literary criticism. Jason Kirkfield I have nothing against reexamining a literary classic. Even with such well-trodden turf as the Holmesian canon, enjoying a familiar story through someone else's lens may provide fresh perspective. So why just 2 stars here? Much of this book is simply Bayard indulging his own specialty (psychoanalysis), ultimately asking the ridiculous question: Are the characters in a book committing crimes behind th. David J. Loftus said An overly tricky book that will appeal to or infuriate die-hard Holmes fans. Pierre Bayard, a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and psychoanalyst, asserts that in fingering Jack Stapleton and his hound, Holmes nailed the wrong suspect(s): " I feel there is every reason to suppose that the generally acknowledged solution of the atrocious crimes that bloodied the Devonshire moors simply does not hold up, and that the real murderer escaped justice."I