The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, from Maximum Prairie

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, from Maximum Prairie
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The famous writer (and in his dead moments pianist) Joseph gelinek returns once more from his nineteenth century and resorts this time to his pseudonym of Maximum Prairie to offer us a novel about the splitting of personality and those messes in which one confuses, for example, an author with a pseudonym 😉

With its usual humorous wit, but without neglecting a good gripping plot, the author leads us through a plot every step more delusional or perhaps more and more lucid. Because as Heinreich Heine would say: "True madness may not be anything other than wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shame of the world, has made the intelligent resolution to go mad."

Synopsis

A torrid morning in July in the center of Madrid. Our protagonist, a doctor who has become a bankrupt homeopath, receives a call from his ex-wife, who makes a surreal proposal: forgive him the months of alimony that he owes him, for the custody of the child they have in common, in exchange for let him house his only brother: a genius chemist in a long depression who has found comfort in the novels of Conan Doyle.

He has become so obsessed with the character that he has come to think that he is the incarnation of the true Sherlock Holmes, as Alonso Quijano believed himself to be Don Quixote. Thus, accepting the ultimatum of his ex-wife - "brother-in-law without pension or pension without brother-in-law?" -, our narrator will be forced to live with the "reincarnation" of the most famous detective of all time and, as a transcript of the chronicler Watson , will follow him in his investigations, accommodating himself to his alienation and breaking the fourth wall with the reader.

The fictional Holmes (the real one being a fictional character himself) will present himself as such. His vast intelligence and his formidable deductive gifts will allow him to impress his "clients" and obtain from them a respectful treatment in the face of his reflections as accurate as they are nineteenth-century.

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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, from Maximum Prairie
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