Rodolfo Martinez is a magician. Author of fantasy novels to success in Spain, he gives life to Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr. Watson in The wisdom of the dead , published Mnémos. An apocryphal story collection, where our heroes are confronted with the supernatural. Nothing original, you say! Writers who have lent themselves to this exercise of resurrection are legion. But under the pen of this Asturian award-winning, you end up doubting that the sleuth invented by Conan Doyle in 1887 (in A Study in Scarlet) is a fictional character.
In his "introduction to the first edition "(As if there were to be others!), Martinez cites the source of his stories: a friend had offered him in 1993, unpublished manuscripts, written by the hand of John H. Watson. Investigations where Sherlock Holmes alongside Lovecraft father and the famous Necronomicon spellbook esoteric delves into the mysteries of the Golden Dawn (a secret society that Conan Doyle attended), opposes the return of Dracula and the edge of retirement, is illustrated in a recent case of poisoning by using his hocus-pocus he has the secret. Until then, the reader welcomes the process but let himself be taken. And yet, in conclusion, the author offers us a couple of pages, titled "Some Notes on the translation of the original English," where he discusses the references to dates and Canon (the set of Sherlock Holmes) . As a session decryption where the stories Watson become a research topic for PhD student. That's when it plunges into the heart of a literary plot, functioning as the nesting dolls that followed suit the reality in fiction, itself part of a different reality, and so on. Accordingly, the reader begins to doubt a posteriori. And dream. And if all these letters of admiration that the great detective receives annually at 221b Baker Street, London, did not remain unanswered? What if Sherlock Holmes had actually existed? The Holmesian evoke Dr. Joseph Bell, professor of surgery, which greatly impressed the young Arthur Conan Doyle during his medical studies, for his remarkable skills of deduction. It would have inspired the character of Holmes. With Rodolfo Martinez, everything becomes logical. Even what is impossible. Thus, in his novel, Conan Doyle became Watson's literary agent! He had to think! Finally, the fans know better than anyone the circumstances in which Sherlock Holmes has disappeared in 1891 in the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland after a final battle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (in The final problem published in 1893). Before reappearing, under pressure from a publisher in 1894, in the empty house (published in 1903), the first story in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes . With the wisdom of the dead Martinez fills the void by imagining the activities of Detective during his pseudo-death. Activities related to the occult. In addition, the only person to be privy to the disappearance was Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother. The puzzle is reconstituted. And we appreciate how the detective, who narrowly escaped death, calls into question his beliefs to cope with the demonic forces beyond his sense of deduction (the future myth of Cthulhu, vampirism, the esoteric societies).
In his "introduction to the first edition "(As if there were to be others!), Martinez cites the source of his stories: a friend had offered him in 1993, unpublished manuscripts, written by the hand of John H. Watson. Investigations where Sherlock Holmes alongside Lovecraft father and the famous Necronomicon spellbook esoteric delves into the mysteries of the Golden Dawn (a secret society that Conan Doyle attended), opposes the return of Dracula and the edge of retirement, is illustrated in a recent case of poisoning by using his hocus-pocus he has the secret. Until then, the reader welcomes the process but let himself be taken. And yet, in conclusion, the author offers us a couple of pages, titled "Some Notes on the translation of the original English," where he discusses the references to dates and Canon (the set of Sherlock Holmes) . As a session decryption where the stories Watson become a research topic for PhD student. That's when it plunges into the heart of a literary plot, functioning as the nesting dolls that followed suit the reality in fiction, itself part of a different reality, and so on. Accordingly, the reader begins to doubt a posteriori. And dream. And if all these letters of admiration that the great detective receives annually at 221b Baker Street, London, did not remain unanswered? What if Sherlock Holmes had actually existed? The Holmesian evoke Dr. Joseph Bell, professor of surgery, which greatly impressed the young Arthur Conan Doyle during his medical studies, for his remarkable skills of deduction. It would have inspired the character of Holmes. With Rodolfo Martinez, everything becomes logical. Even what is impossible. Thus, in his novel, Conan Doyle became Watson's literary agent! He had to think! Finally, the fans know better than anyone the circumstances in which Sherlock Holmes has disappeared in 1891 in the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland after a final battle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (in The final problem published in 1893). Before reappearing, under pressure from a publisher in 1894, in the empty house (published in 1903), the first story in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes . With the wisdom of the dead Martinez fills the void by imagining the activities of Detective during his pseudo-death. Activities related to the occult. In addition, the only person to be privy to the disappearance was Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother. The puzzle is reconstituted. And we appreciate how the detective, who narrowly escaped death, calls into question his beliefs to cope with the demonic forces beyond his sense of deduction (the future myth of Cthulhu, vampirism, the esoteric societies).
In conclusion, The wisdom of the dead book is a remarkable tribute which the myth is perpetuated. Because the narrative style of Watson and Holmes's actions lent to comply with humor, the original work. It is also necessary to know (too well perhaps?) Barrel Holmesian so the winks are multiplying. In addition, the title is well chosen. For the wisdom of the dead is believed to survive, even if they never lived.
Olivier V.
Olivier V.
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