Michael Atkinson

En el Madrid de 1937 las corridas de toros han dado paso a las bombas, los revolucionarios, los periodistas y muchos cadáveres. Ernest Hemingway, que cubre la guerra civil para la prensa norteamericana, llega buscando historias y peligro, y encuentra otra cosa: a un amigo muerto. Con una nueva novela en la cabeza y mucho alcohol en las venas, Hemingway se propone averiguar quien mato a Jose Robles Pazos, un burocrata del Frente Popular y amigo suyo desde la primera guerra mundial. Despues de todo, no hay nada como arriesgarse a morir en zona de guerra si eso significa vivir intensamente y eludir un plazo de entrega. Con el escritor John Dos Passos a su lado, Hemingway se adentra en la oscuridad y descubre que su viejo amigo no es solo una baja de guerra, sino una victima de algo mucho mas terrible.

"The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes" is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits Michael Atkinson gives new readings, became famous by taking nothing for granted. Holmes''s adventures can be read in new ways, including ways that he himself would have found startling, but which can give contemporary readers satisfaction. In clear, accessible prose that will engage specialists and lay readers alike, Atkinson engages in "a series of flirtations" with nine of Arthur Conan Doyle''s favorite detective fictions, using the tools of modern literary theory, from depth psychology to deconstruction. Bluebeard, the kundalini serpent, and Conan Doyle''s mother pop up alongside Jung, Nietzsche, and Derrida as guides to new understandings of these classic stories. Just as Holmes uses treatises on tobacco ash and tattoos to give fresh readings to puzzling facts, Atkinson employs widely different critical strategies to unravel the mysteries of reading itself. "What a delightful book This is surely the most interesting writing you will ever read about Sherlock Holmes, but it is much more. Michael Atkinson gives us literary criticism at its best: the sheer fun of watching a bold and imaginative reader breathe into well-loved, but well-worn, fictions new and enchanting life. Atkinson''s mind races as nimbly as Holmes''s own, and he makes the stories our hansom cab through human nature itself. A tour de force " --Norman N. Holland, author of "Murder in a Dephi Seminar" "A book that speaks directly to readers. . . Atkinson sees far beneath the surface of the Sherlock stories to provide fascinating commentary." --"CincinnatiPost" "Atkinson demonstrates a love and knowledge of the Holmes stories. . . I would recommend The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes enthusiastically to any lover of the Canon who is prepared to have their perceptions widened." --Mystery Writers of America Michael Atkinson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati. For additional news, reviews and related Sherlockiana (leaving Press site): Additional information supplied by the author- http: //ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/English/Holmes/ http: