Sometimes the literary character transcends his own author. It happens in few cases, those in which the popular imagination adopts this character as a fundamental reference, regardless of whether he is a hero or an anti-hero. And that circumstance is notoriously palpable in the case of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.
I am sure that the profane of the literary recognizes the good of Holmes without remembering his creator. It is the magic of literature, the immortality of the work ...
Another remarkable nuance of Arthur Conan Doyle is his actual medical professional. In the case of Spain, other writers such as Pio Baroja landed in literature as doctors, an allegory of the encounter of letters with science. But the really curious thing is that the issue of medical writers is not an exception, since Chekhov but also Michael crichton, many doctors have ended up jumping into literature as another way of focusing on interests and concerns ...
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Focusing on Conan Doyle, the truth is that his Sherlock Holmes is very much a doctor who dissects reality in search of the resolution of the crime, like the beginnings of a nineteenth-century CSI. Sherlock Holmes caught on in the readers of his time (and in part continues to do so today) due to the conjunction between the shadows of the esoteric and the lights of reason, as a true dichotomy of a world emerging towards modernity and science but still it retains links with the obscurantism of earlier times of humanity.
In that balance between good and evil, in that space of coexistence between realism and fantasy, Arthur Conan Doyle he knew how to create a character that would survive all time, reaching today as one of the most remembered and reproduced characters in world history. Elementary, dear Watson ...
Top 3 novels by Arthur Conan Doyle
The dog of the Baskervilles
In a world in unstoppable evolution, where the cities exuded modernity, the rural always marked the dark counterpoint, the surrender to superstition and old customs.
Secluded places in the English geography where the late afternoon was still a concession to the demons of the night. Sherlock Holmes is involved in one of his most recognized cases, in which he will have to fight against the most atavistic fears but also with the obtuse mentality of the inhabitants of those places.
Synopsis: Holmes and Watson are called upon to investigate the strange crimes apparently related to the ancient curse on the Baskerville family.
The "killer" appears to be a "huge black animal shaped like a dog, though larger than any other ever seen by a human creature." Drawn by the mystery of the case, our protagonists soon find themselves engulfed in a maze of ancient superstitions and dark revenge, in the menacing and sinister setting of the Dartmoor wastes.
The Dog of the Baskervilles was the third of the Sherlock Holmes adventures written by Arthur Conan Doyle and has been adapted numerous times to both film and television.
The lost World
Not everything was Sherlock Holmes. The world of the early twentieth century lit up new ideas, technology and constant advances. But there were still areas of darkness in which the imagination rushed towards thousands of assumptions.
The adventure narrative was still triumphant thanks to the unknown of our planet and our universe. In this book, Arthur Conan Doyle succumbed to one such approach about the attraction of the unknown. The search for prehistoric species develops a fast-paced story, with that flavor of authentic adventure full of nuances.
Synopsis: The bizarre, overwhelming and hilarious professor George Edward Challenger, a gifted brain in a caveman body, decides to embark on an expedition to the unknown land of Maple White, to demonstrate to his incredulous public and his skeptical fellow scientists the existence of prehistoric species and, if possible, hit them in the nose even with a diplodoquito.
During the adventure, moments of great drama are mixed with the funny dialectical skirmishes between Professors Challenger and Summerlee. This prodigious odyssey in search of a lost world will have an ending as charming as it is unexpected.
Study in Scarlet
It is fair to rescue the first novel in which Sherlock Holmes appeared. The cradle of one of the most relevant fictional characters in history should be duly reviewed. With a certain aftertaste of Edgar Allan Poe, a murder centers that first investigation of good old Holmes.
With the birth of Holmes at this exact point, new works such as the brilliant Agatha Christie, or the entire current crime novel. A clear debt of the genre with this little novel.
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous reality and fiction detective of all time, but one of the most endearing, popular and enduring characters in literature.
A corpse found in strange circumstances in an uninhabited house causes Scotland Yard police officers to lose themselves in misguided ramblings. And, as if that were not enough, a new murder seems to complicate the story even more.
To solve the mystery, one would have to go back in time to other murders that occurred 30 years ago in the Mormon city of Salt Lake City ... Only Sherlock Holmes, thanks to his relentless deductive and forensic powers, will be able to solve the crime.
