Jul 19, 2002 04:26 PM
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(Updated Jul 19, 2002 04:26 PM)
INTRODUCTION: The most curious fact about the detective story is that it makes its greatest appeal precisely to those classes of people who are most immune to other forms of daydream literature.The typical detective story addict is a doctor or clergyman or scientist or artist, i.e., a fairly successful professional man with intellectual interests and well-read in his own field, who could never stomach the Saturday Evening Post or True Confessions or movie magazines or comics.
PARAGRAPH 1:
It is sometimes said that detective stories are read by respectable law-abiding citizens in order to gratify in fantasy the violent or murderous wishes they dare not, or are ashamed to, translate into action.This may be true for readers of thrillers(which I sometimes enjoy), but it is quite false for the reader of detective stories.On the contrary, the magical satisfaction the latter provide(which makes them escape literature, not works of art) is the illusion of being dissociated from the murderer.
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The magic formula is an innocence which is discovered to contain guilt; then a suspicion of being the guilty one; and finally a real innocence from which the guilty other has been expelled, a cure effected, not by me or my neighbours, but by the miraculous intervention of a genius from outside who removes guilt by giving knowledge of guilt.(The detective story subscribes, in fact, to the Socratic daydream: ''SIN IS IGNORANCE'').
THE STORY:
This story is exactly the same I described about how people get cynical and are addicted towards such nuisance and also put in all such possible difficult meanings and words which makes the reader irritated.
So I would like to tell all you people that don't take interest in such novels where you cannot get any knowledge out of it; but instead it likely hampers your brains to think upon what does that particular word actually means.
THE CONCLUSION:
I would like to leave a small message for the writer Mr.R.L.Stevenson that make stories in a simpler way through which knowledge is enhanced or perhaps put easier words so that the reader does not have to think twice to read or ever rack his/her brains.
----------------------THANKS A LOT--------------------------
