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"Dalgliesh"
Een paar dagen geleden had ik het nog over de televisieserie “Bergerac” die een nieuw leven werd ingeblazen. Deze keer hebben we hetzelfde voor met “Dalgliesh”. Maar tegelijk toch ook weer niet, want waar in het nieuwe feuilleton Bertie Carvel zijn eigen naam uitspreekt zoals je hem leest, noemde Warren Clarke (1947-2014) zichzelf “Diël”. En de reeks heette eigenlijk “Dalziel and Pascoe”…
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P.D… Every six years or so, somebody would commission me to photograph the lovely P.D. James. sadly no more...
Is Emma a Detective Novel?
Is Emma a detective novel? Author P.D. James seems to think so. She once said that Emma seems like a detective novel. I heard this and I immediately said to myself that it cannot be true. Emma is a typical Jane Austen romance novel. I thought that P.D. James, who is the author of mystery novels such as Death Comes to Pemberley, had just misread the situation because as a mystery novelist that would be easy to do. But the more I read Emma, the more I could pick up on where it could be like a detective novel.
Emma is a serial matchmaker. She successfully matched up her old governess Miss Taylor with Mr. Weston and they are now in a happy marriage. She then takes Harriet Smith under her wing and decides that Mr. Elton should be the one for her. Like a detective, Emma observes the behaviors of the two people and tries to look for clues that Mr. Elton has feelings for Harriet.
Even though Emma seems like a detective when she is finding clues and drawing conclusions, I think she is a bad one. She would find evidence of certain things but if that evidence does not point towards her goals of getting Miss Smith and Mr. Elton together then she ignores them. A good example of this would be in Chapter 9 of Emma, when Mr. Elton wrote the poem for Emma and Miss Smith to include in their collection of poems. Emma studied the poem and successfully deemed that it was an offer of courtship. But the line where it says “Thy ready wit the word will soon supply” causes some problems. Emma reads it and knows that her friend Miss Smith is not very witty, meaning that the poem could be for someone else. But because she believes and wants Mr. Elton to be in love with Harriet, she ignores the evidence and comes to the conclusion she wants anyway.
This is why even though I now believe that Emma could be described as having the characteristics of a detective novel, I do not think that Emma makes a very good detective because she lets her feelings get in the way.
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?
P.D. James, casually breaking the 4th wall while sass-praising Jane Austen in Death Comes to Pemberley
Phyllis Dorothy James - born August 3rd 1920, died November 27 2014.
She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
Evelyn was religious. She was therefore, practiced in self deception. She convinced herself that what we were doing was best for the child
From "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" by P.D. James
"Oh, Darcy. Sono così felice. So che milioni di persone lo hanno detto prima di me ma nessuno così a ragione." Lizzie, Death comes to Pemberley.
