Description
Agatha Christie's novels are not just an image of an ideal world of comfort and order.
They depict a world subject to change - to war, to social instability, to the questioning of moral values - and they are closely related to current events.
How did Christie, nostalgic for a stable society, respond to change?
This book considers her treatment of crime both as illustrating a fundamentally evil human nature and as provoking ingenuity, enterprise, collaboration and enhanced tolerance.
Two key factors appear: the illusion which she thinks inherent in human understanding and which is exploited by the cynical and self-interested, and the love of power which taints family and society, which can provoke and motivate murder, and yet which is the basis of energetic action - for good or for evil.
Against these stands the activity of the detectives: but is this activity rational or intuitive?
Is it innocent, or does it have some complicity with the power and illusion it seeks to combat?
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- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:31/07/2007
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- ISBN:9780230590786
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:31/07/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780230590786
