The most notorious change among women writers of the detective novel genre occurred between Agatha Christie y PD James. The first wrote a multitude of works until his death in 1976, the second began to publish detective novels around 1963, when he was over forty, an age at which Agatha Christie it would already be around twenty novels.
Very disparate paths and creative motivations and, yet, a thematic continuity that managed to maintain readers' love affair with the detective genre. with the same passion. It is true that the way of approaching the narrative proposal has clear differences.
While the creativity of Agatha Christie It served him to offer inexhaustible perspectives on the criminal world, PD James ended up taking advantage of his own experiences and knowledge under the protection of the British Civil Service, to project his ideas in plots of similar intensity but with fewer uses of purely creative resources such as the turn.
In other words, in Phyllis Dorothy James we delve into the dark world of crime, into the perverse justification of institutionalized evil, into the sewers of society that seem to communicate socially recognized personalities with morally deprived characters who are capable of anything for their own sake. money.
Be that as it may, James' good work resulted in worldwide recognition and fame.
Top 3 Recommended PD James Novels
Sons of men
If you usually pass by, you will have already seen that I have a marked predilection for dystopian science fiction practiced by Orwell, Huxley o Thick. Well imagine how much I could enjoy with this novel that shifts between the dystopian and the black (in case the dystopian was not sufficiently obscured per se)
In this novel we are presented with the idea that the world is nearing its end after a kind of massive sterilization (perhaps nature is wiser than we think and has found a way to get rid of the human plague).
The character that leads us through the story is Theo Faron, a journalist in a future London who fights tirelessly against injustice and amorality in the face of the apocalypse that is coming. However little time remains, it is never too late for revolution.
The young people who remain are not willing to mortgage what is left of their lives and are determined to overthrow the leader. Between Theo and the last young people in the world, we will discover the foundation of struggle and survival despite the merciless future.
The black tower
From his famous series about detective Adam Dalgliesh. Precisely in this novel in which we discover the great Dalgliesh faltering after a due convalescence is that novel in which weakness shows us the weak points of the great character, humanizing him more if possible to achieve a novel of great empathy in which the mystery , the dangers, doubts and tension end up transforming a plot full of murders into a set that is close to the thriller.
Like a good thriller, the shadow of death approaches an Adam who must make a superhuman effort to emerge victorious from one of his highest risk cases.
Death comes to Pemberley
The last novel to arrive in Spain by this author goes back to the beginning of the 19th century, perhaps with the idea of creating a foggy setting, in the style of Sherlock Holmes.
It is the year 1803, 6 years after the events of the novel Pride and Prejudice of Jane Austen, a novel to which James pays tribute. About the same characters as Elizabeth and Darcy, James creates a mystery novel where the disappearance and more than possible murder of officer George Wickham, the one whom Elizabeth loved, arouses doubts and fears that sprinkle in all directions. A daring revision of James that does not leave indifferent ...
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