“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Fandorin on the Leviathan
Just finished Boris Akunin's entertaining romp Murder on the Leviathan . It's a quick read, a fun homage to Agatha Christie. Here Fandorin, travelling as a Russian diplomat, matches wits with the French Inspector Gauche, no doubt based on Hercule Poirot, to solve a grisly series of murders. Suspects are a veritable United Nations of characters, enabling Akunin to play games with national character issues, as well as literary genres. Not to mention the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. For example, the Japanese gentleman, a Samurai warrior, writes Haiku poetry...