The profession of translator seems to serve in many cases for an interesting and detailed approach to the work of the great translated authors. A maximum approach that can reveal all kinds of resources and tricks in the arduous task of checking the literality, the set phrase or the translation of the symbol.
I say this because well-known writers began with that dedication to the dissemination of other authors in their own language. From Ana Maria Matute but also Murakami to cite two authors as distant as they are powerfully genius ...
However, with Sayers something practically the opposite happens. It was in the middle of his literary career that he devoted himself to one of the most exhaustive translations of the Divine Comedy, a task on which he emptied himself intermittently and which he did not manage to complete in his entire life.
Be that as it may, Sayers' own work extended between comings and goings from detective novels (with his great character, Lord Peter Wimsey), to the theater; offering a bibliography still recognized today as a great reference to early XNUMXth century English literature.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Dorothy Leigh Sayers
The mystery of the Bellona Club
The best sagas are those that do not require a chronological reading order. Thus, any reader can delve into the adventures of the current protagonist to make random jumps, among other equally enjoyable prequels or sequels without plot conditions.
And the Lord Peter Wimsey Affairs offers that independent reading that makes each installment a complete work. This novel that I place in the first place makes the most astute Peter Winsey shine in cloudy London, which in the middle of the XNUMXth century was the delight of readers.
The typical case of the inheritance that faces its possible lucky ones and the simultaneous death of the last two administrators of the capital to be distributed.
Under a chiaroscuro setting that mimics characters and environment, the tension towards the truth makes its way between the masquerade of luxury and opulence.
The corpse with glasses
Sayers' theatrical streak makes this novel flow through extensive dialogues in which one enjoys humor made in England made irony while once again good old Peter Winsey tries to connect the dots before the grotesque case of the dead man with glasses in the bathroom in Mr. Thipps's house.
The idea of ​​finding a corpse when one is preparing for an idle evacuation already awakens a hilarious feeling that continues to spread over characters and situations. Because the deceased hiding in such a strange place is added the disappearance of whom everyone insists that he is his double, a recognized figure of high society.
Someone wanted to finish him off and made a mistake or on the contrary, someone had unfinished business with his double and has kidnapped the one who was not ... A grotesque case masterfully solved by Sayers.
Mortal poison
Although she claims her complete innocence, Harriet Vane has been able to use her worst arts to poison her lover, either to steal something from him or as a plot for her next novel in a fearsome break in her vocation as a writer.
But Harriet does not stop there and also prepares her particular love poison potion to make Peter Winsey fall into her arms. The problem is that Peter seems to see the guilt on Harriet's head as clear as the rest of the world, but his heart sees it as the representation of the most idealized and dizzying love.
Could Harriet be another character in your novels, the darkest? Or can Peter Winsey really find that glimmer of light that exonerates her, even if it's not entirely adequate and just a matter of her heart being in love with her?
