Pierre Bayard
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Pierre Bayard is a psychoanalyst and professor of French literature in Paris
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Værker af Pierre Bayard
Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Re-opening the Case of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" (2007) 225 eksemplarer
How to Talk About Places You've Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel (2012) 78 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1954
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- France
- Erhverv
- professor of French literature
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psychoanalyst - Organisationer
- University of Paris VIII
- Kort biografi
- Professor Bayard has written several books that present revisionist readings of famous fictional mysteries.
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The first section is a detailed recap of the plot of Christie's famous The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The second is an examination of Christie's oeuvre from the point of view of both rational investigation and literary criticism. The third section is a broader discussion of truth and authorial voice. The final section returns to Ackroyd to put forward arguments why Hercule Poirot may have got it wrong - and finally an allegation against a different character entirely.
This is not heady academic stuff. Bayard is a populist critic at best, although he is pretty darn good at translating dense subjects for a general audience. It's worth noting that the book contains spoilers for roughly every single Christie novel without warning, so you'd better be either indifferent or well-read in the subject.
This book will interest people with a broader enthusiasm for literary theory but especially crime fiction fans. While his solution for the Ackroyd murder was rather obvious (it was my assumption from page one), his broader points about how we interpret texts, and the purposes of crime fiction, are salient. Occasionally borderline absurd, but salient!… (mere)