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Il Caso Del Mastino Dei Baskerville (2008)

by Pierre Bayard(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8861580580 (ISBN13: 9788861580589)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Excelsior 1881

review 1: I could not have read this but suspect that I can listen to almost anything read with a British accent. The author went off into a lot of explanations about what he was going to do, after providing a plot summary (though why you would read this if you did not already know the plot, I don't know) - those were a bit tedious. However, his re-evaluation of the Hound of the Baskervilles was quite interesting and convincing. I like the Hound of the Baskervilles as it is, but realize it isn't particularly convincing or completely satisfying as a mystery. Bayard's approach and conclusion were reasonable - once he got to them.
review 2: I'm going to chalk much of my distaste for this book due to bad translation. The flow of language is terrible, making this a difficult... more read for me from the start.Another large part of my distaste is the sheer arrogance of the author that drips from every page. Holmes was arrogant, too, but his was derived from his success in solving problems where others where having trouble discerning the mere existence of an issue. Holmes also showed a more humble side numerous times. Pierre Bayard exemplifies the stereotype the Anglophone world has of the French: snide, arrogant and dismissive.He spends too much of the book retelling the story in a most pedestrian and boring manner, boldly poking the reader with quick jabs about the original conclusion while telling us that all will be revealed later. I don't know if this was a nod to the way Holmes worked in the original stories, but Bayard lacks the charm of the former. Bayard does pick up on one thing that's quite apparent: Holmes was fixated on Stapleton from the very beginning. Bayard's problem is that he keeps harping on it rather than allowing the Great Detective this one idiosyncrasy. His conclusion is just as forced as he claims the original one is, reading into Doyle's writing in a way only a psychologist can. At the end, I'm left with wondering why I plodded through this and why it took me so long to read less than 200 pages. I give this book two stars simply because it wasn't boring in the sense that I wanted to finish it so I could yell at the book like one does at a referee on a televised sports game. less

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