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Agatha Christie. Das Leben ist kein Roman
Die Bücher von Agatha Christie gehören zu den meistgelesenen der Welt. Wer kennt nicht Miss Marple, den Mord im Orient-Express und Hercule Poirot? Der penible Detektiv mit dem gezwirbelten Bart diskutiert in dieser sachkundigen Biografie wortgewandt mit der Kriminalautorin und begleitet sie auf ihrem ungewöhnlichen Lebensweg, auf dem bei weitem nicht alles so präzise ablief wie in ihren Romanen. Scheidung, Reisen in den Nahen Osten, archäologische Ausgrabungen, zwei Weltkriege … Sie lebte ein selbstbewusstes und freies Leben. (Egmont Graphic Novel)
128 pages, Hardcover
First published August 27, 2014
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May 31, 2021
If you’re seeking a highlights reel with little heart, this book will do nicely.
April 16, 2018
The author Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau begin this biography with a possible explanation for Agatha Christie's disappearance in December 1926. It's plausible, and had me wondering what Christie would say, if anything, about this scenario.
An interesting thread running through this biography is Agatha arguing with Hercule Poirot, and threatening to kill him. Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence also show up to chat with Christie. These conversations lend the biography an amusing and fantastic feel, while Martinetti covers a number of important moments in Christie's long and productive life.
I really liked the line drawings and the use of colour and the way the authors showed Agatha from her childhood and through her life. The transitions from one incident to another are occasionally abrupt, though, having read Christie's autobiography, I was able to follow all the events well.
An interesting thread running through this biography is Agatha arguing with Hercule Poirot, and threatening to kill him. Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence also show up to chat with Christie. These conversations lend the biography an amusing and fantastic feel, while Martinetti covers a number of important moments in Christie's long and productive life.
I really liked the line drawings and the use of colour and the way the authors showed Agatha from her childhood and through her life. The transitions from one incident to another are occasionally abrupt, though, having read Christie's autobiography, I was able to follow all the events well.
July 3, 2016
This was a very fast and fun read! It's a graphic novel which offers a very insightful glimpse into Agatha Christie's life, ranging from her childhood to her death. I especially liked the imaginary conversations she had with her most famous character, Poirot. If you're a fan of Agatha Christie's works and have always wanted to know a little bit more about the her as a person, this graphic novel is a great start!
November 17, 2024
The life of Agatha Chrisitie is as fascinating as her fiction. I've read some good books about her life in the past & although only a brief guide this graphic novel is extremely well written & researched. It's highly enjoyable for Chrsitie fans & a nice concise read for the more casual observer of the Queen of Crime.
June 2, 2016
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time having sold roughly 2 billion copies and her books are among the most widely-published in the world, third only to Shakespeare and the Bible! But while generations of readers have enjoyed her gripping whodunits, her own life wasn’t quite as interesting as shown in this short biographical comic, Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie.
The book opens with her mysterious disappearance in December 1926, arguably the most compelling episode of her life story, where she briefly went into hiding/had a breakdown after losing her mother and discovering her husband was having an affair. In a way it was like life imitating art as her own life became like one of her mysteries.
From there we go back to the start and work our way forwards. Agatha had a comfortable childhood being born into an upper-middle-class household, discovered literature late in life thanks to her mother who believed girls shouldn’t read until 8 years old, and served as a nurse during WW1. She got married, had a kid, and started writing, finding success quickly and building on it from then on. She went travelling, became an archaeologist, remarried, and, as time went on, her books became so popular they were adapted into radio plays and movies; her play, The Mousetrap, became the world’s longest-running play. In other words, it’s a straightforward bio of Agatha Christie.
Except the book’s writers do something different by introducing Christie’s most famous creations, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence as characters who speak with their creator as if they’re real, perhaps to highlight the hold they had on Christie’s life and/or highlight Christie’s vivid imagination. As the years went on she came to resent her most famous character, Poirot, in the same way Arthur Conan Doyle did Sherlock Holmes, knowing that her audience would never allow her to stop writing about him by killing him off.
Alexandre Franc’s artwork is similar to Herge’s clear line here and is appealing for its simplicity. Though competent, it’s an unexciting visual style chosen probably to focus readers more on the written content than anything else. And it is an informative read – you’ll come away with a well-rounded view of Christie’s life – even if a number of scenes rarely rise above simple exposition. One of the few moments where I got an idea of Christie as a person was her passing and unemotional observation that the men in her life all cheat on her at some point, perhaps because she doesn’t need them.
Agatha Christie lived a colourful and generally quiet life who comes across here as quite a modern woman for her time, though I suspect this had a lot to do with always being wealthy enough to be as free as she wanted. Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie is an accessible and edifying, if uninspired, bio of the author’s life that will satisfy any reader looking to learn about the writer. However, as is often the case with artists, the best way to know them is through their art, rather than through third hand biographies – pick up one of her books (I highly recommend And Then There Were None) to get a sense of the real Agatha Christie.
The book opens with her mysterious disappearance in December 1926, arguably the most compelling episode of her life story, where she briefly went into hiding/had a breakdown after losing her mother and discovering her husband was having an affair. In a way it was like life imitating art as her own life became like one of her mysteries.
From there we go back to the start and work our way forwards. Agatha had a comfortable childhood being born into an upper-middle-class household, discovered literature late in life thanks to her mother who believed girls shouldn’t read until 8 years old, and served as a nurse during WW1. She got married, had a kid, and started writing, finding success quickly and building on it from then on. She went travelling, became an archaeologist, remarried, and, as time went on, her books became so popular they were adapted into radio plays and movies; her play, The Mousetrap, became the world’s longest-running play. In other words, it’s a straightforward bio of Agatha Christie.
Except the book’s writers do something different by introducing Christie’s most famous creations, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence as characters who speak with their creator as if they’re real, perhaps to highlight the hold they had on Christie’s life and/or highlight Christie’s vivid imagination. As the years went on she came to resent her most famous character, Poirot, in the same way Arthur Conan Doyle did Sherlock Holmes, knowing that her audience would never allow her to stop writing about him by killing him off.
Alexandre Franc’s artwork is similar to Herge’s clear line here and is appealing for its simplicity. Though competent, it’s an unexciting visual style chosen probably to focus readers more on the written content than anything else. And it is an informative read – you’ll come away with a well-rounded view of Christie’s life – even if a number of scenes rarely rise above simple exposition. One of the few moments where I got an idea of Christie as a person was her passing and unemotional observation that the men in her life all cheat on her at some point, perhaps because she doesn’t need them.
Agatha Christie lived a colourful and generally quiet life who comes across here as quite a modern woman for her time, though I suspect this had a lot to do with always being wealthy enough to be as free as she wanted. Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie is an accessible and edifying, if uninspired, bio of the author’s life that will satisfy any reader looking to learn about the writer. However, as is often the case with artists, the best way to know them is through their art, rather than through third hand biographies – pick up one of her books (I highly recommend And Then There Were None) to get a sense of the real Agatha Christie.
July 18, 2016
A pretty slim graphic bio that works to make Christie’s strong independent spirit come to life. As the cover makes clear, Christie grew up a flaming redhead, and that image is meant to be emblematic of that spirit. She was a strong girl who was discouraged from reading—it’s not good for girls to read too early on, her mum said—until the age of 8, but as a woman she was a nurse, flew planes, traveled the world, married archaeologist Max Mallorwan and wrote dozens of mystery novels and plays that endeared her to the world.
The book takes as its center a (mysterious) time in 1926 when Christie, grieving her dear mother’s death, is told by her first husband that he had been having an affair and was leaving her. Christie unexpectedly disappears for a couple weeks and never talks of it. Is it a staged “mystery” event for the purpose of selling her detective novels? Did she have a nervous breakdown? I had been inclined to think the latter, but this volume seems to hint the act is derived from a position of strength, not weakness. It is clear from this book that men cheat on Christie, but she learns to be strong and independent instead of a victim. The overall purpose of the book is to illustrate that she is a thoroughly modern woman of spirit and grace.
There’s a fanciful and fun conceit Martinetti develops here that her two main characters Poirot and Marple become real for her and are resented in some ways for taking over her life after their long term success as characters. After all, she sold over a billion copies of her books. Marple and especially Poirot weave into her story throughout as we tack back and forth between her writing and real life adventures.
I liked the light and breezy and colorful artwork of Guillaume Lebeau that is meant to rescue Christie from the traditional view of her (from dozens of serious and mostly stodgy biographies) as this stiff and stodgy British upper-class-woman. The story Martinelli and Lebeau concoct isn’t deep, and skims over the details but it’s fun and is insightful. It helped me with my reading of The Mystery of the Blue Train, too, which many Goodreads readers had seen as mired in the mores of the time, even around its views of women. This bio helped confirm for me what I early on suspected, that Christie was a feminist for her time.
The book takes as its center a (mysterious) time in 1926 when Christie, grieving her dear mother’s death, is told by her first husband that he had been having an affair and was leaving her. Christie unexpectedly disappears for a couple weeks and never talks of it. Is it a staged “mystery” event for the purpose of selling her detective novels? Did she have a nervous breakdown? I had been inclined to think the latter, but this volume seems to hint the act is derived from a position of strength, not weakness. It is clear from this book that men cheat on Christie, but she learns to be strong and independent instead of a victim. The overall purpose of the book is to illustrate that she is a thoroughly modern woman of spirit and grace.
There’s a fanciful and fun conceit Martinetti develops here that her two main characters Poirot and Marple become real for her and are resented in some ways for taking over her life after their long term success as characters. After all, she sold over a billion copies of her books. Marple and especially Poirot weave into her story throughout as we tack back and forth between her writing and real life adventures.
I liked the light and breezy and colorful artwork of Guillaume Lebeau that is meant to rescue Christie from the traditional view of her (from dozens of serious and mostly stodgy biographies) as this stiff and stodgy British upper-class-woman. The story Martinelli and Lebeau concoct isn’t deep, and skims over the details but it’s fun and is insightful. It helped me with my reading of The Mystery of the Blue Train, too, which many Goodreads readers had seen as mired in the mores of the time, even around its views of women. This bio helped confirm for me what I early on suspected, that Christie was a feminist for her time.
May 12, 2016
(3.5) Agatha opens – appropriately – with the real-life mystery at the heart of Agatha Christie’s story. In December 1926 the celebrated crime novelist disappeared, prompting a full-scale police investigation. She had abandoned her car by a lake in Surrey and traveled by train to Harrogate, where she checked into a hotel under a false name. Was it all an elaborate act of revenge for her husband’s philandering? Christie strikes up a conversation with Hercule Poirot, her most famous creation, in the hotel room, while back in London a clairvoyant is brought in to confirm she is alive. The medium’s look into Christie’s past sets up the novel’s first half as an extended flashback giving her history up until 1926.
Agatha Miller was raised in a wealthy household in Torquay, Devon. I never knew that she was a flaming redhead or that her father was American. His death when she was 11 was an early pall on an idyllic childhood of outdoor exploration and escape into books – even though her mother opined, “No child ought to be allowed to read until the age of 8. Better for the eyes and the brain.” She first turned her hand to writing while laid up in bed in 1908, completing her first story in two days. She and her mother took an exciting trip to Egypt, and in 1912 she met Lieutenant Archibald Christie at a ball. During the First World War she was a nurse at the town hospital in Torquay, where she came across a Belgian refugee who – at least in the authors’ theory – served as the inspiration for Poirot.
The Christies’ only daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919. The following year The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Poirot mystery, was published. Christie’s career successes are intercut with her round-the-world travels (portrayed as sepia photographs), marriage difficulty and a new romance with archaeologist Max Mallowan, and the occasional intrusion of real-world events like World War II.
Meanwhile, her invented detectives jockey for her attention: not just Poirot, but Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence too. You have to suspend your disbelief during these scenes. I don’t think the authors are literally suggesting that Christie hallucinated conversations with her characters. Rather, it’s a whimsical way of imagining how her detectives took on lives of their own and became ‘real people’ she cared for yet found exasperating – she often threatens to do away with Poirot as Arthur Conan Doyle tried to do with Sherlock Holmes. There were only a couple of pages where I felt that a conversation with Poirot was a false way of conveying information. For the most part, this strategy works well; when coupled with the opening scene in 1926, it keeps the biography from being too much of a chronological slog.
With the exception of the sepia-tinged travel sections, this is a book packed with bright colors, particularly with Christie’s flash of red hair animating the first three quarters. It finishes with a timeline of Christie’s life and a complete bibliography of her works – no doubt invaluable references for diehard fans. I’ve only read one or two Christie books myself (my mother is the real devotee), but I enjoyed this quick peek into a legendary writer’s life. I was reminded of just how broad her reach was: from Hollywood studios to London’s West End, where The Mousetrap has been showing for a record-breaking 63 years. Her influence cannot be denied.
With thanks to the publisher, SelfMadeHero, for the free copy. Translated from the French by Edward Gauvin.
Originally published with images on my blog, Bookish Beck.
Agatha Miller was raised in a wealthy household in Torquay, Devon. I never knew that she was a flaming redhead or that her father was American. His death when she was 11 was an early pall on an idyllic childhood of outdoor exploration and escape into books – even though her mother opined, “No child ought to be allowed to read until the age of 8. Better for the eyes and the brain.” She first turned her hand to writing while laid up in bed in 1908, completing her first story in two days. She and her mother took an exciting trip to Egypt, and in 1912 she met Lieutenant Archibald Christie at a ball. During the First World War she was a nurse at the town hospital in Torquay, where she came across a Belgian refugee who – at least in the authors’ theory – served as the inspiration for Poirot.
The Christies’ only daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919. The following year The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Poirot mystery, was published. Christie’s career successes are intercut with her round-the-world travels (portrayed as sepia photographs), marriage difficulty and a new romance with archaeologist Max Mallowan, and the occasional intrusion of real-world events like World War II.
Meanwhile, her invented detectives jockey for her attention: not just Poirot, but Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence too. You have to suspend your disbelief during these scenes. I don’t think the authors are literally suggesting that Christie hallucinated conversations with her characters. Rather, it’s a whimsical way of imagining how her detectives took on lives of their own and became ‘real people’ she cared for yet found exasperating – she often threatens to do away with Poirot as Arthur Conan Doyle tried to do with Sherlock Holmes. There were only a couple of pages where I felt that a conversation with Poirot was a false way of conveying information. For the most part, this strategy works well; when coupled with the opening scene in 1926, it keeps the biography from being too much of a chronological slog.
With the exception of the sepia-tinged travel sections, this is a book packed with bright colors, particularly with Christie’s flash of red hair animating the first three quarters. It finishes with a timeline of Christie’s life and a complete bibliography of her works – no doubt invaluable references for diehard fans. I’ve only read one or two Christie books myself (my mother is the real devotee), but I enjoyed this quick peek into a legendary writer’s life. I was reminded of just how broad her reach was: from Hollywood studios to London’s West End, where The Mousetrap has been showing for a record-breaking 63 years. Her influence cannot be denied.
With thanks to the publisher, SelfMadeHero, for the free copy. Translated from the French by Edward Gauvin.
Originally published with images on my blog, Bookish Beck.
October 31, 2016
I was excited to pick up this book but soon had to force myself through. One would have to work quite hard to make Christie's life dull, but I'm afraid this book did seem a bit dull to me. Even the opening, when Christie disappears and takes on an alternate identity for a spell, didn't come off as very interesting or deepen my sense of her as a human. Maybe there was a distance that made it hard to feel intimate with the person in these pages? A lack of conversationally or analysis. But the events of her life felt all kind of separate from each other and disconnected from any contextual motivation and I never felt emotionally or intellectually connected to what was happening. Meanwhile, I wasn't on-board with Christie's conversations with her characters. If they added to the depth or made the story of her life more vibrant or accessible I would have been all for it. But as it was these interludes felt extraneous and didn't add much. All of this said, I'm glad the book is out there. Christie is an important writer and a character in her own right. Just the organization and style of the book wasn't compelling to me.
August 9, 2017
Ce graphic novel est en quelque sorte une source rapide pour les lecteurs désirant connaître la Dame du crime.
Agatha Christie est une femme très indépendante, intelligente, ayant un très grand amour pour les voyages durant lesquels elle accumule tant d'expérience qui se refletera dans ses nombreux ouvrages.
Même s'il a bien été réalisé, quand on tourne la dernière page, on a le sentiment que Mme Christie deumeure en elle même un mystère.
This graphic novel was a sort of short introduction to the Lady of mystery, readers can use it as a source to get to know a little about her.
Agatha is a smart, independent and really adventurous lady, she loved to travel and live as much experiences as possible, something we see reflecting in her works.
The graphic novel was nicely done, but when we get to the end, it feels like the Lady still remains a mystery.
Agatha Christie est une femme très indépendante, intelligente, ayant un très grand amour pour les voyages durant lesquels elle accumule tant d'expérience qui se refletera dans ses nombreux ouvrages.
Même s'il a bien été réalisé, quand on tourne la dernière page, on a le sentiment que Mme Christie deumeure en elle même un mystère.
This graphic novel was a sort of short introduction to the Lady of mystery, readers can use it as a source to get to know a little about her.
Agatha is a smart, independent and really adventurous lady, she loved to travel and live as much experiences as possible, something we see reflecting in her works.
The graphic novel was nicely done, but when we get to the end, it feels like the Lady still remains a mystery.
May 24, 2020
Îmi plac mult operele Agathei Christie, iar această biografie mă motivează să citesc și mai multe cărți!
A fost o persoană extrem de muncitoare și atât de îndrăgostită de viață!
A fost o persoană extrem de muncitoare și atât de îndrăgostită de viață!
August 13, 2019
An interesting interpretation of Agatha Christie's life, and I found it enjoyable. I think, however, some of the scenes didn't flow into each other the best, and you have to keep a close eye out for the changing dates, because it can be a little confusing at the start. The art style wasn't my favourite, but I think this is a good book for anyone interested in finding out quickly and easily about Agatha's life and books.
February 4, 2021
I'm not sure who's to blame for the "meh" feel about this book, the authors or Agatha Christie!
I read her autobiography a few years ago, that has the same detached view of her life, which already made me wonder at the time if she didn't want to open up more to the public, or if she wasn't able to. Looking at her upbringing and her generation in general and the way they were taught to deal with emotions (stiff upper lip etc.) I suspect it's the latter.
The art of this volume is absolutely gorgeous and in the tradition of famous Belgian comic book artists like Hergé or Morris and I loved every panel.
The writing is fine, very much in tune with Christie's autobiography and I liked the idea of her having imaginary fights with Hercule Poirot.
All in all a good overview over Christie's life, but not very exciting.
I read her autobiography a few years ago, that has the same detached view of her life, which already made me wonder at the time if she didn't want to open up more to the public, or if she wasn't able to. Looking at her upbringing and her generation in general and the way they were taught to deal with emotions (stiff upper lip etc.) I suspect it's the latter.
The art of this volume is absolutely gorgeous and in the tradition of famous Belgian comic book artists like Hergé or Morris and I loved every panel.
The writing is fine, very much in tune with Christie's autobiography and I liked the idea of her having imaginary fights with Hercule Poirot.
All in all a good overview over Christie's life, but not very exciting.
November 7, 2016
This graphic biography of Agatha Christie is a fun, quick, informative read. It's all framed by Agatha's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926, after she found out about her husband Archie's infidelity. The book covers her travels around the world with Archie (including surfing in South Africa and Hawaii), her wartime work as a nurse, a journey on the Orient Express that inspired one of her best-known novels, her visits to archaeological digs in the Middle East, where she met her second husband, Max Mallowan, and much more. I especially liked her imaginary conversations with Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Fans of Agatha Christie's mysteries will enjoy this book, and it's a great introduction for those who are looking forward to reading her books for the first time.
Fans of Agatha Christie's mysteries will enjoy this book, and it's a great introduction for those who are looking forward to reading her books for the first time.
February 20, 2017
The art was lovely and it was interesting to learn a little more about Agatha Christie (though I reckon her autobiography will likely do a much better job :P), but I felt the graphic novel was too bitty and just lacked something more (perhaps pages, haha).
July 15, 2021
Hace tiempo que estaba buscando este cómic para leerlo, y como gran fan de Agatha que soy estaba claro que me iba a encantar como ha sido el caso.
Me ha parecido una manera muy original de presentarnos la vida de Agatha, en este cómic se mezclan fantasía y realidad para relatarnos la vida de esta magnífica autora, mi autora favorita, y con la cual empecé a leer novela policiaca, para mí siempre será "la dama del crimen".
Me ha parecido una manera muy original de presentarnos la vida de Agatha, en este cómic se mezclan fantasía y realidad para relatarnos la vida de esta magnífica autora, mi autora favorita, y con la cual empecé a leer novela policiaca, para mí siempre será "la dama del crimen".
March 17, 2024
The illustrations were wonderful! And the book is refreshingly historically accurate! Enjoyable for any Agatha Christie fan. I loved how Miss Marple, Poirot, and Tommy and Tuppence were included as well! Incredibly well done!
June 19, 2024
3 and a half stars. I liked it. Transitions between periods of her life are a bit rough, but overall it's very good. I have somehow never read a Christie (!) but now I want to. She had an interesting life that included lots of travel and it inspired some of her novels. Her detectives Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence make appearances in the graphic novel, and she has funny little conversations with them.
October 10, 2018
3. I liked the art in this graphic novel biography of Agatha Christie. The text, though, left a bit to be desired. It lacked a strong narrative flow and was choppy. There weren’t good transitions between scenes and I felt a little like it gave me whiplash jumping from one event to the next, but the timeline in the appendix was very nice. Overall, I enjoyed the summary and glimpse into the details of Agatha Christie’s life.
August 3, 2016
It's been a long time since I read any Agatha Christie. I was big on her in high school, but somehow grew out of the habit. It wasn't from any dissatisfaction with her writing or anything. I think what happened was that I drifted over towards science fiction and stopped reading so many mysteries in general. I do have fond memories of her books, though, and enjoyed this book immensely.
It is, as you'd surmise, a biography of Christie in comics form. Everyone has probably heard the story of her brief disappearance, but there are much more interesting aspects to her life than merely that sensational incident. Her travels, her interest in archaeology ... she certainly seems to have led an interesting life, especially considering how prolific she was in her writing. One wonders just how she found time to do it all. Throughout the book she sometimes has conversations with characters from her books, a conceit which helps move the story along without resorting to narrative captions or thought balloons. Her fictional creations are drawn in a slightly more cartoony style from the rest of the cast, which makes them easy to distinguish. Naturally Poirot almost steals the show every time he appears. I suspect there are many parallels between events in her life as depicted in this book and her writing, but my Christie experiences are a little too hazy for me to know this for certain.
Overall, this was a fun book, though perhaps a little on the lightweight side. Fans of Christie's work should definitely enjoy it. I certainly liked it, and I'm hardly a number one fan. I should reread some of her books. It's been too long ...
It is, as you'd surmise, a biography of Christie in comics form. Everyone has probably heard the story of her brief disappearance, but there are much more interesting aspects to her life than merely that sensational incident. Her travels, her interest in archaeology ... she certainly seems to have led an interesting life, especially considering how prolific she was in her writing. One wonders just how she found time to do it all. Throughout the book she sometimes has conversations with characters from her books, a conceit which helps move the story along without resorting to narrative captions or thought balloons. Her fictional creations are drawn in a slightly more cartoony style from the rest of the cast, which makes them easy to distinguish. Naturally Poirot almost steals the show every time he appears. I suspect there are many parallels between events in her life as depicted in this book and her writing, but my Christie experiences are a little too hazy for me to know this for certain.
Overall, this was a fun book, though perhaps a little on the lightweight side. Fans of Christie's work should definitely enjoy it. I certainly liked it, and I'm hardly a number one fan. I should reread some of her books. It's been too long ...
September 11, 2016
Agatha Christie is such a fascinating woman. This was a fast, fun way to read about her life but it really only skimmed the surface. Agatha has conversations/arguments with Hercule Poirot throughout the graphic novel so that we get to hear her thoughts about her life as well as her feelings about her most famous character. The graphic novel was a good method to whet my appetite making me think I would enjoy a more in depth look at her life.
February 11, 2017
Entertaining read but confusing and partly fragmentary. Timeline at the back helps to make sense of Agatha Christie's life.
March 23, 2017
This was such a charming and fast read. I loved the idea of Christie talking to her characters. It was very well done. I would recommend this one to every Christie fan.
August 11, 2019
Не в усьому послідовна, нахабно фрагментарна, галопічна (галопом по Європах та всіляких Левантах тобто) та в дошку спекулятивна, але прекрасна, як триста п'ятдесят сонечок графічна біографія, заснована, в першу чергу, на Тій Самій Автобіографії.
Автори - дослідники детективної літератури - хвацько пробігають крос життям дами Аґати, зупиняючись на чекпойнтах: визначальні моменти дитинства, перший шлюб, Перша світова, другий шлюб, друга Світова - і всю дорогу розповідають, натякають, пропонують здогадатися, звідки воно все береться. Все те, що ляже потім в основу творчості.
У цьому сенсі це практично ідеальна письменницька біографія. Але ж тут і ще всяке є! Симпатична графіка а-ля ретро-журнальна карикатура. Станові та національні приколи. Скляночка отрути на адресу голлівудських екранізацій. Але головне - тут є Пуаро і міс Марпл, і Томмі з Таппенс, і інші герої творів Аґати Крісті, але Пуаро найбільше. Він виступає повноцінною дієвою особою, пропонує творчі рішення, свариться на авторське свавілля, жартує, кепкує і взагалі - дуже класна версія вийшла! А ще саме Пуаро виступає рушієм "Справи про загадкове зникнення відомої письменниці". Так, автори використали цей кейс, щоб на пальцях розповісти, як будується детективна історія. Вийшло прикольно.
Автори - дослідники детективної літератури - хвацько пробігають крос життям дами Аґати, зупиняючись на чекпойнтах: визначальні моменти дитинства, перший шлюб, Перша світова, другий шлюб, друга Світова - і всю дорогу розповідають, натякають, пропонують здогадатися, звідки воно все береться. Все те, що ляже потім в основу творчості.
У цьому сенсі це практично ідеальна письменницька біографія. Але ж тут і ще всяке є! Симпатична графіка а-ля ретро-журнальна карикатура. Станові та національні приколи. Скляночка отрути на адресу голлівудських екранізацій. Але головне - тут є Пуаро і міс Марпл, і Томмі з Таппенс, і інші герої творів Аґати Крісті, але Пуаро найбільше. Він виступає повноцінною дієвою особою, пропонує творчі рішення, свариться на авторське свавілля, жартує, кепкує і взагалі - дуже класна версія вийшла! А ще саме Пуаро виступає рушієм "Справи про загадкове зникнення відомої письменниці". Так, автори використали цей кейс, щоб на пальцях розповісти, як будується детективна історія. Вийшло прикольно.
September 2, 2024
A beautiful exploration of Agatha Christie's life. The use of including her characters, such as Poirot, conversing with her to portray her inner thoughts and feelings was fantastically done! The structure of it was fantastic, starting with her disappearance, then flashing backwards to her younger selves, and then continuing onwards to her older selves was a brilliantly executed way to venture through her life story. Couldn't recommend this graphic novel more for fellow fans of this incredible woman!
July 3, 2020
Iubitorilor de cărți detective, mai cu seamă celor cărora le place opera Aghatei Christie, le recomand acest roman grafic.
Relaxant, captivant, interesant, motivant. Într-o manieră accesibilă și ingenioasă este redată biografia reginei romanului detectiv.
Relaxant, captivant, interesant, motivant. Într-o manieră accesibilă și ingenioasă este redată biografia reginei romanului detectiv.
February 4, 2018
4.5 stars. I loved this biographical graphic novel about my favourite author. I especially enjoyed the style of the illustrations and the way that Christie's feelings about her famous detectives were portrayed. A must for any fans of The Queen of Crime.
December 24, 2019
Mi escritora favorita 😍
April 18, 2025
boring
February 24, 2021
Roman graphique sur la vie d'Agatha Christie avec Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple et Tommy and Tuppence... J'ai beaucoup aimé su ce n'est qu'il se lit beaucoup trop vite ! Les incursions des célèbres personnages de l'auteur sont très plaisantes et originales. J'ai aimé retrouver la reine du crime et sa vie en dessin. Pour lrs inconditionnels d'Agatha Christie !
March 30, 2025
Sufficient introduction to the life of Agatha Christie. Confusing at points. Great bibliography at the close of the book. Good illustrations.
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