From The School of Life
A Thought to Live By
Category: Ideas
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."
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.
