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Mystery and Its Fictio...
 
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David I. Grossvogel

Mystery and Its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha Christie

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Hardcover, 224 pages
Published April 1st 1979 by Johns Hopkins University Press
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Scott Smith
This books has a good premise but didn't really deliver on it as well as it could have. If it were a little more ambitious, and maybe either a lot longer or a lot clearer, it could have fulfilled its thesis of literature (especially mystery literature), as broad subject, in relation to the human mystery under such auspices as the Oedipus myth and the plight of Job in the face of Divine Impenetrability, and the shades in between as far as where the human confronts its limitations and injunctions....more
Charles
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