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Bezig met laden... The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown (1988)door G. K. Chesterton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Noi italiani di una certa età, quando sentiamo parlare di padre Brown, pensiamo immediatamente a Renato Rascel che indubbiamente aveva il physique du rôle. Ma leggere i racconti in lingua originale permette di capire la grandezza di Chesterton come scrittore. Le sue descrizioni sono incredibili, e uniscono una dovizia di particolari a un lirismo poetico. Martin Gardner, nella sua introduzione, traccia un parallelo tra Sherlock Holmes e padre Brown, scherzando spesso ma soprattutto mostrando come i racconti di Chesterton, per quanto improbabili, non lo sono poi tanto più dei gialli televisivi attuali: bisogna insomma leggerli per quello che sono, e godersi i ragionamenti oltre che il modo poco ortodosso in cui il piccolo sacerdote riesce a trovare la soluzione. Le quasi 200 note di Gardner aggiungono altre informazioni spesso utili per chi legge questi racconti un secolo dopo... Una lettura divertentissima. ( ) When I was reading for my Ph.D. exams way back when, one of my committee members suggested I read some Father Brown stories: if I was reading Sherlock Holmes to see how a detective applied seeing like a scientist to solving crimes, then maybe it would be helpful to contrast a non-scientific way of solving crimes. Martin Gardner's introduction emphasizes that this is Father Brown's modus operandi, quoting a speech by Father Brown from the later The Secret of Father Brown (1927): "what do those men mean, nine times out of ten, when [...] they say detection is a science? When they say criminology is a science? They mean getting outside a man and studying him as if he were a gigantic insect; in what they would call a dry impartial light; in what I should call a dead and dehumanised light. They mean getting a long way off him, as if he were a distant prehistoric monster; staring at the shape of his 'criminal skull' as if it were a sort of eerie growth like the horn of a rhinoceros's nose" (9). To me, this feels like a rebuttal of the practices of actual scientific criminologists, like Cesare Lombroso and Francis Galton, and even though it evokes Holmes's comparison of himself to the paleontologist Cuvier,* I don't think it really matches up with how Holmes actually works. Holmes investigates the external, of course, but reveals the internal by doing so, and though I would agree he works in a "dry impartial light," I would never call his approach "dead and dehumanised." If Chesterton subtracted Doyle's scientific and logical approach from detective fiction, I'm not convinced he replaced it with anything of particular interest. Chesterton writes well, but I found these were mostly unsatisfying as mysteries, relying too much on obscure leaps of deduction. Father Brown may claim he gets into people's heads more than other detectives, but I didn't find that borne out by the actual stories in question. I might enjoy reading them for fun, but I found little of interest in Father Brown. * "As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after." (from "The Five Orange Pips") geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The beloved fictional detective Father Brown solves 12 of his most puzzling cases in this copiously annotated edition. This first collection of Father Brown mysteries, widely considered the author's best, includes "The Blue Cross" "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo" and more. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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