Discusión:Dorothy L. Sayers
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Criticism of Sayers[editar]
The most savage attack on Sayers' writing ability came from the prominent American critic and man of letters Edmund Wilson in a well-known 1945 article in The New Yorker called Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? He briefly writes about her famous novel The Nine Tailors, saying "I set out to read [it] in the hope of tasting some novel excitement, and I declare that it seems to me one of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field. The first part is all about bell-ringing as it is practised in English churches and contains a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopedia article on campanology. I skipped a good deal of this, and found myself skipping, also, a large section of the conversations between conventional English village characters...." After a mention of the "awful whimsical patter of Lord Peter", Wilson then attacks Sayers' apparent strength: "I had often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well... but, really, she does not write very well: it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective-story writers and that she thus attracts attention in a field which is mostly on a sub-literary level."
Criticism of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane[editar]
Wimsey has been criticized for being too perfect; over time the various talents he displays grow too numerous to be believed. Edmund Wilson also expressed his distaste for Lord Peter in his criticism of The Nine Tailors: "There was also a dreadful stock English nobleman of the casual and debonair kind, with the embarrassing name of Lord Peter Wimsey, and, although he was the focal character in the novel... I had to skip a good deal of him, too."
Wimsey is rich, well-educated, charming, and brave, as well as an accomplished musician, an exceptional athlete, and a notable lover. His only flaws are his lack of good looks, what other characters regard as silly prattling, a nervous disorder (shell-shock) and a fear of responsibility. The latter two both originate from his service in World War I.
The character Harriet Vane, featured in three novels, has been criticized for being a mere stand-in for the author. (See Mary Sue.) Vane, like Sayers, was educated at Oxford (unusual for a woman at the time) and is a mystery writer. Vane initially finds Wimsey to be overbearing and superficial, but eventually falls in love with him. Unlike Sayers, Vane is not a scholarly writer by profession, but, in "Gaudy Night," she does help a professor work on a scholarly book as the ostensible reason for being on campus while she is actually investigating the mystery described in the book.
Anti-Semitism in Sayers' Writing[editar]
The portrayal of Jews in Sayers' fictional work has been criticized for being stereotypical and some of Sayers' characters express explicitly anti-semitic views. There is no evidence, however, that Sayers endorsed anti-semitism. The characters expressing such views were often employed to demonstrate the existence of anti-semitism within the context of the work or were otherwise integral to the story. In fact, Sayers subtly criticized anti-semitism in several of her detective novels. One of Sayers's recurring (and sympathetic) characters, the Hon. Frederick Arbuthnot, marries a Jew, the daughter of the murder victim in Whose Body?, to the cheerful acceptance of Lord Peter Wimsey.
As noted above, Sayers fell deeply in love (1921-1922) with the author John Cournos (1881-1956), a Russian-born American Jew. The affair ended with Sayers, much to her despair. While there are clear parallels between Sayers's relationship with Cournos and Harriet Vane's relationship with Philip Boyes, Sayers omitted the religious difference from her fictional version of the story; in fact, she made the fictional Boyes the son of an Anglican clergyman. This plot, then, can scarcely be characterized as anti-semitic. Falta por traducir:
Dorothy Sayers' letters to Cournos, continuing through 1925, are in a collection at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Sayers remains popular within academic circles, even among scholars who are authorities on issues of anti-semitism.
Sayers in work by other authors[editar]
Sayers' work was frequently parodied by her contemporaries (and sometimes by herself). A particularly interesting example is "Greedy Night" (1938) by E. C. Bentley, the author of the early modern detective novel Trent's Last Case, a work which Sayers admired.
Sayers appears, with Agatha Christie, as a title character in Dorothy and Agatha [ISBN 0-451-40314-2], a fictional murder mystery by Gaylord Larsen, in which a man is murdered in her dining room, and Sayers has to solve the crime.
Jill Paton Walsh has completed and published two additional novels about Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane: Thrones, Dominations, based on an unfinished novel; and A Presumption of Death, based on the "Wimsey Papers", letters ostensibly written by various Wimseys and published in The Spectator during World War II.
Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, has claimed in interviews that her main characters, Henry and Clare, are loosely based on Sayers' Peter and Harriet.
Lord Peter Wimsey makes a cameo appearance in Laurie R. King's A Letter of Mary, one of a series of books relating the further adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and his equally talented partner and spouse, Mary Russell.
Bibliography[editar]
- See also Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers
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