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Chargement... Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmespar Michael Sims
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  ryner | Jan 14, 2022 |    ) siri51 | Oct 31, 2021 | I also found it interesting to learn of the publishing business in this era, and stunned to discover that Donan Doyle had to basically sell his copyright in order to get that first Holme’s mystery published. (  ) BookConcierge | Jun 22, 2019 | ) MM_Jones | Jun 3, 2017 |  ) annbury | Mar 17, 2017 |
 For all its diligent research, Sims’s brief book covers much the same ground as Andrew Lycett in his similarly entitled Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes (2007). If it has a fault, it lies in the quality of the prose. The title The Scarlet Letter, we are told, radiates “an artsy frisson of vice”, while the Dupin tales give off a “seductive reek of depravity”. Sims, an anglophile American with a taste for gas-lit murders, need not have cranked up the adjectives. Arthur and Sherlock remains an absorbing tribute to the world’s greatest investigator and his troubled maker. Prix et récompenses
" As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in fiction. Michael Sims traces the circuitous development of Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery, from his early days in Edinburgh surrounded by poverty and violence, through his escape to University (where he gained terrifying firsthand knowledge of poisons), leading to his own medical practice in 1882. Five hardworking years later -- after Doyle's only modest success in both medicine and literature -- Sherlock Holmes emerged in A Study in Scarlet. Sims deftly shows Holmes to be a product of Doyle's varied adventures in his personal and professional life, as well as built out of the traditions of Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens -- not just a skillful translator of clues, but a veritable superhero of the mind in the tradition of Doyle's esteemed teacher. Filled with details that will surprise even the most knowledgeable Sherlockian, Arthur and Sherlock is a literary genesis story for detective fans everywhere. "-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I thought I initially heard about this book on the SYMHC podcast, but I'm not finding the episode now to confirm. It was interesting to learn of Doyle's background and of his desire to become a writer despite having been educated as a physician. There was one scene in which I took exception to Sims' choice of phrase, when he declared that "Arthur delivered at home their first child" — doctor notwithstanding, I'm pretty sure we know who did all of the work. Amusing side note: When the categories were released for Read Harder 2022 and the first one was "a biography of an author you admire," I was already in the middle of this book. I'm unsure about the term "admire," since I knew nothing about Doyle personally or as a writer, but I suppose I admire or respect him about as much as I do any other author, so SCORE! (