Building on the success of Henning Mankell's Wallander series and Stieg Larsen's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a tidal wave of Scandinavian noir had surged into British and American translation, ...and continues to, as more and more Scandinavian authors reach our bookstores. Chinese American author Lisa See's Dragon Bones (2003) blends Chinese history into a murder mystery at the Three Gorges Dam. A short novel that has the surreal quality, it seems to me, of many works by Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki, it turns the simple act of a woman's choosing vegetarianism into a destructive challenge to her husband and traditional family. Palymra, Virginia J. Madison Davis is the author of eight mystery novels, including The Murder of Frau Schütz, an Edgar nominee, and Law and Order: Dead Line.
The Faces of Maigret Davis, J. Madison
World literature today,
2017, Letnik:
91, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Atkinson has been creating notable comic characters from the beginning of his television career in 1979 on Not the Nine O'clock News and moved on to Blackadder (intermittently from 1982 to 1989) and ...most memorably Mr. Bean (intermittently 1990-95 and after). The Telegraph expressed the common reluctance that Atkinson was too distinctive to take on the role, which left it "sunk at the start" The Daily Mirror summarized the critical reaction by saying he "failed to convince" Metro, a London tabloid, said the movie "bored viewers to tears" A Guardian headline said simply, "Zut alors!-c'est terribleGamma To be fair, the film had high ratings, and another Guardian critic blamed the script but praised Atkinson for being "deeply subtle." Moviemakers have long had no scruples about stripping away most of a character's qualities to update the original but still exploit the famous name or title.\n Notable French actor Jean Gabin, most famous for his role in Jean Renoir's La Grande illusion, took three turns as Maigret in 1958, 1959, and 1963, but television actors Jean Richard and Bruno Cremer are probably the most well-known French Maigrets.
For a person with lofty standards who had written serious essays and a book on Nietzsche (1915) and The Creative Will (1916), he seems to have justified his condescending to the detective novel in ...the first paragraphs of his Scribner's article in saying that different standards apply to different genres. ...he wrote, "they are unable to fulfill each other's function; and the reader who, at different times, can enjoy both without intellectual conflict, can never substitute the one for the other." Wright's view of what it was that separated mystery fiction from other forms of fiction is delineated in his Scribner's essay and in his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" published in American Magazine in 1928 and widely available on the Internet.
Dinner with Dick Francis Davis, J. Madison
World Literature Today,
09/2016, Letnik:
90, Številka:
5
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
Francis's books were all set in the world of horse racing, but he did not use the same detective character over and over as is most common in mystery publishing. The horse, Devon Loch, was hugely ...talented and popular, but, for reasons that sportsmen argued about for years and could never settle, Devon Loch rounded the turn far in the lead and, as it thundered toward the finish line, abruptly spread its legs and stopped. ...their work, however it was done, created the books, and that is all that matters.
