From The School of Life
A Thought to Live By
Author: Joanna Baker
Joanna's first murder mystery novel was reviewed as "outstanding' in The Age, Melbourne. Her current book, The Slipping Place, is a multi-layered page-turning murder mystery, set in Hobart, available in all Australian bookshops and online. Learn more at joannabakerauthor.com. "I'm a sixth-generation Tasmanian, deeply attached to the place and very proud. On Tasmania Stories (tasmaniastories.com and FB) I present short pieces drawn from Tasmania's history and culture."
MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY
Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.
Literary Murder Mystery
What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?
An act of infinite cruelty
Sometimes it feels as if the murder victim has been inserted into a book as a prop, to make the story happen for other people.
Einstein and Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
The Impossible
The Elsinore Vanish is a variation of the classical locked-room mystery.
Ah, the French
Roland Barthes proposes an erotics of reading. And crime fiction does not come off well.
The Cleverest Christie: The Reversal
Readers believe we are solving one particular mystery, when all along something else entirely has been going on.
The Limits of Reason
Chess is good at staying rational, and this is what allowed her to solve the previous mystery. That commitment to logic is about to be tested.
Greek Tragedy and Freud: Auden on the Detective Story
For W. H. Auden detective fiction embodied a timeless idea, which appears in Classical, Christian and Freudian thought.
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