Agatha Christie, Creams and punishment ... As I already wrote in my blog
, I've always loved Agatha Christie, in any case since I was 18 or 19 years at the time of my license letters, when she was hardly blameless among the students of literature. It was part of my marginality, as Camus that was then fashionable to look like a nice "humanist" rather than as a philosopher - that he should prefer-Sartre, and as Voltaire, far from the visionary thinking of Rousseau!, was guilty of extra sympathy bourgeois, capitalist and slave trade, owner shares sugar etc. .. etc. ... well ... I delighted, but the admitting without admitting it, the Plague, Candide, and ... Agatha.
Yesterday Michel income is the Cultural Centre forecourt (Leclerc..) With a small gift:
cream and punishment
délicieuseset Recipes criminal
Agatha Christie
Anna Martinelli and Francis River Asset photos of Philip, ed JCLattès Mask
I'm never really works in context I like to read. To me they were running in-itself within their system of texts, themes or characters, that's where the contrasts are formed, reconciliations, and prospects, which is built for me the meaning ...
so I do not know if I would have bought this book myself, I had been wrong not to do it, because I found great pleasure to read ... thank you Michael!
By collecting over the novels of revenue or gourmet delights, is the image of a woman whom they briefly in the background: gourmet teas and muffins, huge picnics, to double cream, English breakfasts, but also sea bathing, walking, travel, life in a word or even freedom and love ... a woman who is not unlike her contemporary Colette, including Willie, his neurotic husband, told with a touch of weariness: "She loves everything! "Coco Chanel ... or
I realize while reading that food tastes are not harmless and they help build systems of characters
A Hercule Poirot, Belgian gourmet" continental "great hater of British cooking, sweet super sweet almost nauseating, Miss Marple refinement of real muffins and scones, good cup of hot tea well sweetened offered as a remedy to the anguish of the victims, Ariadne Oliver bulimia fruit fresh apples in particular, whose stalks trimmed to hang around ... Chimney aristocrats, the substantial breakfasts, meals Christmas forcefully game and poultry ...
In fact the mention of food contributes to building a fictional world by giving it a tangible reality, these small details which readers are told "you could not invent *". Realistic and certainly both totally fictitious and exotic for us as these details mark the world as belonging to another time, another country, another social class. A bit like in the movies or some of Hitchcock films F. Ozon, or adaptations of Agatha Christie P. Thomas ....
Both giving presence and scenery ... the illusion of reality, but a real and invented abroad ...
added finally, as evidenced by the title that all this food often serves delicious "Device" ** to poisons sophisticated or violent, that in all these delights may or may not , and this is the ambiguity of Agatha Christie, housing the threat of death ...
"Beware of the sweetness of things," beware of the delights of life ...
But do not forget to enjoy ....
* the secret of realism according to Diderot
** within the meaning of the word processor of course .. 
