Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictitious Personnage, the main thing Détective used by the novelist Agatha Christie in 69 of its detective novels.

The character

Born in Belgium, he works as a police officer. During the First World War, its country is occupied by the German , it is evacuated with other refugees in the English small town (fictitious) of Styles St Mary, where it solves its first enigma: the Mysterious Business of Styles . It becomes then Private detective. Hercule Poirot saw now only her investigations.

Ripe man of small stature, with a head in the form of egg, an appearance of Dandy, dyed hair, handlebar moustaches carefully waxed, it is always drawn with four pins, impeccably vêtu, and concerned of his morals as much as his comfort. Its moustache makes its pride, with equal of the priceless value which it grants to its intelligence, but it will not hesitate to sacrifice them temporarily, for a good cause, in one of the first novels. Hercule Poirot is conceited, imbu of her person and likes to be complimented. He is considered almost infallible and thus does not fail to face the most terrible adversaries, which, considering it somewhat ridiculous, tend to underestimate it. However, this pride is worth to him often badly to judge certain people and to be consequently badly judged.

It has an obsession of the order and scorns the methods of traditional investigations generally consisting in putting itself at knees to seek indices. He prefers a psychological approach of the Crime, going until betting with his best friend and sometimes partner, Arthur Hastings, which there is able to solve a business while remaining comfortably sitted in a chair, using its small gray cells . Hercule Poirot likes the order and emphasizes the small details which can appear unimportant with the eyes of all but which constitute contrary to the elements essential to discovered truth, if they are arranged in the order, with the manner of a puzzle and addition with the testimonys, astutely started by the intelligence of the detective. The disclosure of the truth is, in the majority of its investigations, the pretext of a setting in scene which it organizes itself and which gathers all the protagonists of the history. It is at these meetings that Poirot describes the various stages of its investigation and reveals the various assumptions, by designating for each case a possible murderer, before concluding with the only viable solution.

Short chronology of the appearances

The series of the books putting in Poirot scene tells its life in England. The series begins with the Mysterious Business of Styles where he is a refugee with Styles until Curtain ( Hercule Poirot leaves the scene ) where he returns to Styles. However it solves also businesses apart from the England, most known being that of the Crime of the East-Express train (1934).

The character becomes famous with the publication, in 1926, of the Meurtre of Roger Ackroyd of which the resolution is discussed. The novel is always one of the most famous detective novels. The most recognized novels are those written of 1932 with 1943 including traditional the A.B.C against Poirot (1935), Cartes on table (1936) and Mort on the Nile (1937).

Five small pigs (1942) in which Poirot inquires into a made murder sixteen years before, by analyzing the various aspects of the tragedy, is comparable with the film Rashomon .

Recurring characters

Although the characters helping Poirot are different from one history to another, some are recurring:
  • the captain Hastings, that Poirot meets on its arrival in England, and who becomes his partner and better friendly, before leaving to direct a breeding in Argentine with its young Dulcie wife (called “Cendrillon”) met at the time of the Crime of the Golf ;
  • Ariadne Oliver, author of detective novels (putting in scene a detective Finnish), and who is car-caricatures humorous and unslung of Agatha Christie itself;
  • Miss Lemon (Felicity), her secretary;
  • George, her manservant;
  • the Inspector Japp, of Scotland Yard;
  • superintendant it Battle.

Lists of the novels

Here a list of the novels of Agatha Christie putting in Hercule Poirot scene.

Without appearing there, Poirot is named (as anybody) by Battle in the Hour Zero ( Around Zero ) and is quoted (as a character of novel) by Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in Associés against the crime/the Crime is our business ( Partners in Crime ).

Adaptations

Cinema

Incarnated with the cinema by various actors, whose on several occasions Peter Ustinov, Hercule Poirot is without question an icon of the police literature as well as Sherlock Holmes.

Television

There exists also a Televised series: Hercule Poirot , adapted novels of Agatha Christie, in which the role of the detective is held by David Suchet.

The experts of work “christienne” agree in general to recognize that the interpretation of David Suchet would be much more faithful to the spirit of the novels and news which could the being that of Peter Ustinov, who introduces a type of humor that the character in written works did not present. Some advance also the opinion according to which the scenarios for television would be themselves more faithful to the screen of the novels than would be to it those for the cinema (except the film adaptation of the Crime of the East-Express train , than some aficionados qualify, in a perhaps exaggerated way, “only film adaptation” faithful to Agatha Christie)…

Cartoon

Hercule Poirot was also the hero of several adaptations as a cartoon of the novels of Agatha Christie, published in the editions Claude Lefrancq, carried out by the bedeist Jean-François Miniac and the scenario writer François Rivière. To note that the character of Poirot was even introduced by the scenario writer, François Rivière (this time assisted of the dessinatrice Laurence Suhner) in a history, published in the editions Emmanuel Proust, in which the Belgian detective did not appear under the feather of Agatha Christie: the Secrecy of Chimneys .

Animation

There exists also a animated series Japan ease of 39 episodes left in 2004, Agatha Christie No Meitantei Poirot To Marple , which puts simultaneously in Hercule Poirot scene and Miss Marple.

Critical bibliography

  • Pierre Bayard, Which killed Roger Ackroyd? , Taken again Collection, Editions of Midnight, 2002, ISBN 978-2707318091.
  • Andre-François Ruaud and Xavier Mauméjean, Many lives of Hercule Poirot , red collection Library volume 3, electric Sheep editors, 2006, ISBN 978-2915793239.

External bonds

  • List of the actors having incarnated Hercule Poirot with the cinema and on television
  • the site devoted to the series Agatha Christie' S Poirot with Suchet in the title role

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