The Independent - London, October 5th, 2007
Jane Jakeman
Agatha Christie:an English mystery By Laura Thompson
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Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?" asked the critic Edmund Wilson in 1944. Yet somehow it is Wilson himself who is outdated in the postmodern literary world, where narrative has returned and the power of plot is once more acknowledged. Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) now seems a very modern text, with a narrator of positively Barthesian unreliability. Poirot can be accepted as an enabling device, with no anguished search for depth of chara...
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