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The new episode of "History Lessons with Tamara Eidelman" is dedicated to the biography of Agatha Christie, the "queen of detective fiction". Why has her fame not faded over the decades? Why are we still interested in reading about what happens in yet another country house, where a corpse lies on the library carpet? It seems to have nothing to do with us. Or does it?
BOOKS:
1. Agatha Christie. Autobiography.
2. A. Livergant. Agatha Christie. Witness for the Prosecution.
3. Julian Symons. Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel.
Upcoming performances:
Canada
04/05 - Toronto
04/07 - Montreal
04/09 - Ottawa
04/11 - Calgary
04/12 - Vancouver
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04/16 - Seattle
04/19 - Palo Alto
04/21 - Los Angeles
04/25 - Washington
05/03 - Chicago
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00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture topic
00:00:33 Tamara Eidelman's trip to Berlin
00:03:33 Divorce from her husband and Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance
00:11:58 How did the divorce from her first husband affect Agatha's life and work?
00:14:43 Was the writer's life unusual?
00:15:54 Agatha's childhood. Education. Creativity. Relationship with her mother
00:20:06 Agatha's shyness
00:22:46 Agatha as an antisemite?
00:23:49 Agatha's coldness towards her daughter
00:26:16 Interest in writing. Marriage to Archibald Christie. The war
00:29:13 "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
00:31:01 Why detective stories?
00:35:06 Unexpected twists in detective stories. How did their plots change in the 20th century?
00:38:04 What accounts for the popularity of detective stories?
00:43:02 What other genres did Agatha write in?
00:44:26 The canons of the detective genre. Does reality reflect in detective stories?
00:51:06 The detective story is a game between the author and the reader
00:52:54 Creation of the Detection Club. The member's oath
00:55:43 Did Agatha break the rules of the detective genre?
00:59:30 The comedic character of Hercule Poirot
01:03:44 Unexpected resolutions in Agatha's novels
01:10:34 Agatha and the search for the new
01:11:17 Female detectives in literature
01:14:22 The contrast in the Miss Marple books
01:16:54 Marriage to Max Mallowan
01:19:40 How did Agatha's daughter's life turn out?
01:20:29 Wealth. Agatha's reclusiveness
01:21:43 How did Agatha's works change after World War II?
01:22:57 Agatha's popularity
01:23:43 Why was Agatha's universe criticized in the 1990s?
01:26
:19 Kenneth Branagh's adaptations - a new look at the classics
01:30:10 What secrets does Agatha keep?