A writer who writes about another writer. Knowledgeable literature. An easy documentation task for the good of michael innes, who left us in 1994.
Jokes aside, what the book Stop the machines! presents us is an interesting combination of humor and thriller. Difficult combination, don't you think? The black, acid humor is what it has, it goes well with everything.
A writer named Richard Eliot lives comfortably thanks to his detective novels in which a character named Spider, a sophisticated criminal where they exist, emerges unscathed from a thousand ambushes that the forces of order prepare to catch him. Only when the Spider manages to redirect its conduct does it agree with the police its integration into society, with the agreed compensation.
But, at a given moment, that fiction jumps to the closest reality of the author Richard Eliot to upset everything. With the very modus operandi of the Spider, which makes everyone doubt about the imitation or directly the possible jump from fiction, the character goes to reality to portray in each of his acts a decadent society focused on appearances. The Spider is a criminal after whose trail he brings out the worst of those supposedly higher layers.
Scenarios in a certain way surreal are happening around this singular case of replication of a fictional character. Every moment the most bizarre characters appear that awaken comedy and complicity in a reader who is delighted to move between mystery and intrigue with that latent sensation of tragic humor. A literary work that has become a constant mockery of the supposed morality in which the vilest souls, the great men and women who walk the world, hide their superiority.
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