AGATHA CHRISTIE

English writer. The hero of her many detective novels and stories - amateur detective Hercule Poirot, has a phenomenal intuition and observation: "Poirot investigates" (1924), "The Mystery of chimneys" (1925), "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926), etc. The author of plays, "Witness charges "," Mousetrap ", etc.

Almost impossible to clear answer to the question: why and how the provincial English girl, unremarkable, has not received besides this formal education, never really knowing the "life", under which usually means travel, sorrows, adventures, became one of the most readable writers of the XX century, but still was named the "queen of detective? Over sixty years of work by Agatha Christie published 68 novels, over one hundred short stories and 17 plays. Her works have been translated into 103 languages.

And who among reputable critics will be taken to explain the fact that for over forty years in London there is only one theater piece, where in 1952 a consistently full room every night playing "Mousetrap" Christie. Is that the writer herself with her usual gentle humor told in the Autobiography version unprecedented in the history of art of longevity play. It turns out that the beginning was to write a short dramatization on radio, known as "Three Blind Mice. " She later became the foundation works for the theater. Agatha Christie believed then that the "Mousetrap" remain on the scene eight months. Its familiar theatrical figure was more than generous and predicted fourteen months. Both were poor visionaries. But even the most devoted fans of writer recognize that many stories of her books are far-fetched, implausible clues, the characters of the same type, and the language is so primitive that detectives Christy recommended reading for beginners to learn English. What's all the same secret to the success of Agatha Christie's why the love of her books together such different people, so different nationality?

The life of the writer, as has been said, no detective, nor love, nor any other adventurous intrigue is not marked. Rather, it can serve as an example of the biography respectable lady. However, it is not surprising - the childhood Christie had at the end of "Victorian" era with its cult of duty, family, puritanical mores.

Agatha's father, Frederick Miller, was born in America, but he had so long lived in England, that the house where the future writer was brought up, no trace of "Americanism" is left.

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In his autobiography, Agatha, paying tribute to the good character of her father, doubtfully noticed that if he had, even for bread had to engage in any useful activity, it is unlikely that came out of it something worthwhile.

As befits a Victorian lady, Christie no formal education has not received with pleasure read Walter Scott and Dickens, she studied music and singing and was thinking about performing career. However, it has prevented an insurmountable shyness - Agatha never been able to sing or play without mistakes in public. It is curious that his shyness writer was never able to overcome. Being from 1958 to 1976 president of the Club detective, she had always refused to toasts and speeches. And one more funny detail: Agatha Christie in a very advanced age, to make up for the lack of education and meet the level, went to school, where he discovered that, it turns out, she still did not know about the existence of a right angle, as Sherlock Holmes did not suspected of circular shape of the earth.

In the early years Agathe did not think about writing. She grew up in an environment where for such pursuits are not treated seriously, well, a girl alone ought to think about the future of a successful marriage. Family values were so strongly inculcated in childhood Agatha that she later decades, with hundreds of publications in the "occupation" has always put - "wife. "

Write the same future celebrity took out of boredom and Tongues. Express their thoughts on paper proved to slow, dreamy girl's easier than saying them out loud in public. Recovering from an illness, Agatha nothing better to do wrote the first story. Interestingly, the older sister Madge had already published some of his stories. She also caused Agathe on a bet, expressed doubts that she could write a detective story. Our heroine has composed his first detective story effortlessly, but six publishers rejected the future of celebrity and only the seventh took the liberty to publish the "mysterious story. " Then, in 1920, the birth of the "queen of detective" has gone unnoticed: it was sold only about two thousand copies, and royalties amounted to . . . 25 lbs.

Such modest literary successes were not discouraged writer, it is quite self-critically and ironically belonged to his own person. Perhaps, in this soft sobriety, good practicality and matured grains of future success.

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"I still think that writing a book - it is a natural development of the ability to embroider cushions. Ever since Agatha Christie, not considering himself a professional writer, carefully created designs of their detectives, like a home embroidery on canvas: the crime - investigation - finding the perpetrator. And as a hard-working spider grew its network of detectives.

Initially, when the fees were small, she tried to write more to make ends meet. Then, when they came to fame, self-confidence and high fees - less to avoid paying huge taxes. And despite all that, like "Victorian" the girl remained unchanged - to writing she treated as a decent man craft, which, as every practical matter, requires perseverance, diligence, patience and maybe a little inspiration. And currently she never said "writer" - shame . . .

The image of Poirot's most popular detectives of the XX century - along with Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Maigret, was born in the imagination of the writer quite by accident. She had already thought out story outline of its first product, when I realized that in order to establish the truth, it will need a detective. And then she saw him - a small man with huge thick mustache, forever all leads in order - and the subjects and facts. Because the district during the First World War there were many refugees, Belgians, Christy decided that some of them could be a retired police inspector. Not without irony, gave her his undersized hero Hercules beautiful name - Hercule - Poirot.

But Miss Marple Christie deducted from her beloved grandmother. True, the heroine detective convinced an old maid, and Mrs. Miller had survived three husbands, and in my eighty yet not without interest looked at men. But the views of the two ladies - real and invented - lifestyle, family members received their education. Grandmother, remembers Christie's autobiography, "Being cheerful, always expect from any and all of the worst . . . it just does not trust people. " Compare the attitude to the world Miss Marple: "Not in her nature was to make the perpetrator an excuse for lack of evidence, usually she suspected the worst, and in nine cases out of ten is right. "

From her grandmother, from her cozy, the prevailing canons, which became a symbol in a measured, quiet life, left in Agatha Christie's admiration for the house, helping a person regain the meaning of existence and giving it the reliability and security from the dangers of the outside world.

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This "home", apparently, and that creates a unique aura of works of Christie's, which can not be indifferent as it is impossible to be indifferent to his own childhood.

And in the life of Agatha Christie's had only one passion - at home. Once, at the dawn of adolescence, she saved her ancestral home, which wanted to sell after the death of his father. And becoming a famous writer, she has gained as much property as allowed her fees. In the best of times it owned seven houses at a time. However, it was not easy collecting, she loved the house as like a work of art. Agate in turn move from one house to another, trying to understand what she likes. And it all continued to be agents of new listings on the views of real estate.

The image of the house - the key that can unlock the secret of success not only by Agatha Christie, but also lift the veil of her private life. One of the houses, she thought, was unlucky - Stiles, named after the novel "Crime in Stiles. Before buying a family, he was replaced by Christy and several owners had fallen into disrepute. Three previous family who lived in Stiles, divorced. According to Agatha, who was to blame interior decoration, but as soon as she was about to remake his own way, Archibald Christie, her husband, writer, fell in love with another woman and left Agathe.

It happened in December 1926, after the publication of the novel, Christie has made famous, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". Heartbroken writer left the house and mysteriously disappeared, and police found a car abandoned. In business, even including press - still missing a celebrity, and yes even "detective. " True, about a week Christie was found - she had lived in the hotel under another name.

But this case was only when Agatha left home in despair. More she will never betray their homes, and home gratefully repay her for her care. There were no more in Agatha Christie's life unhappy homes - the second marriage brought peace and prosperity of the novelist. Orientalist, archaeologist, a prominent scientist Max Mallone was fifteen years younger than Christie, and this fact has long caused concern in Agate. But their alliance was strong and serene. According to eyewitnesses, they were arguing only about which way to go by car and how long it will take time.

And in one of the regular houses Agatha Christie finally has got even own corner.

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Before that, she humorously told me that photographers who wanted to photograph the famous writer at his desk, lost, for a long time Agatha worked on my sheets where necessary - on the corner of the dining room table, on the dresser in the bedroom. Now she has a real room with a piano and a library. This house was unfortunately killed during the bombing. Another, too, happy, house - Greenway, a solid two-storey mansion in a secluded place, needed a military department for placement officers. After the war, returned home owner not only intact, but even with the "increment" in the form 14-Q water closet.

In addition to the detectives, Agatha Christie has established six nravoopisatelnyh novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. First released in 1930 called "The Giant's Bread," the latter "Burden" - in 1956. Great success in this genre writer has not achieved, but was able to speak out, to experiment, to remember the experiences of childhood and adolescence.

She loved life and was able to enjoy it, and apparently this sort of "lust" attracted to its simple but so good books. "One of the greatest secrets of existence - to be able to enjoy the gift of life, which is given to you" - she wrote in her autobiography.

She was a "foodie" life. And how poetic lines are read sketched Christi revelations about what she could not endure: "The crowd, loud voices, noise, long talks, receptions, cocktail parties in particular, cigarette smoke, and smoking in general, alcoholic drinks, jellies, oysters, a little warm food, gray sky . . . Most of all - the smell and taste of hot milk, "But she adored it:" The sun, apple, music, trains, digital puzzle, and everything associated with the figures, sea bathing, silence, sleep, dreams, food, smell the coffee, dogs, and theater. " Well, self-irony writer can not refuse. Especially if you get a grasp in the end, which is summed up by Agatha Christie in his declining years: "What can I say in his seventy-five? So many things - silly, funny, handsome. Two nonappearing vain desires: dinner with the Queen of England and buying my first car - platypus" Morris.