![]() ![]() Therefore they “lost sight of the matter as a whole” (ibid) and they cannot recognise elementary facts like the lack of a motive. In addition, he compares the police with the detective Vidocq because they both have the habit of “holding the object too close” (Poe 252). In the narrator's opinion Dupin seems rather interested in the case, but refuses to judge just by reading the article and the results of the police's observation as he says “There is no method in their proceedings ” (Poe 251). Furthermore it is said that a man called Adolphe Le Bon had been arrested, even if there was no visible motive. The main abnormality in the statements of the interviewed witnesses is that they all agree to have heard the voice of a Frenchman and that of a foreigner, whereas everybody believes to have recognised another nationality. Poe 246) in the Rue Morgue attracts Dupin's attention. Some time later an article in a local newspaper about two extraordinary murders (cf. This is a technique which is further pursued in the other Dupin-stories and which has also been simulated in the methods of other detectives like Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes. He observes, thinks about the matter and gets to a solution, “Poe himself named the three Dupin stories ‘tales of ratiocination’ ” (Crime Fiction since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity 26). What he wants to point out with this quotation is that Dupin uses his intuition when he observes and applies his methods. Charles May says about Dupin's novel talent in observing and evaluation: “But what seems preternatural is only the result of 'method,' beginning with observation, which presupposes the key element of knowing what to observe.” (88). Here we become acquainted with Dupin's method of deduction when he reconstructs the narrator's train of thoughts. As the narrator says later: It is in the nature of the analyst that he “ glories in that moral activity which disentangles.” (Poe 240). Dupin informs his companion about his conclusion, “It was the fruiterer ” (Poe 244) who made him think of Chantilly, and only afterwards explains his observation. When Dupin notes that the narrator seems distracted, he starts analysing in silence the reason for this distraction. He is introduced by this narrator as a poor gentlemen descended from a noble family who is exceedingly literate and likes living in darkness.ĭupin's analytic ability is first demonstrated when he takes a walk with the narrator, whose name is not mentioned throughout the stories. ![]() Auguste Dupin is a detective living in Paris in a mansion together with the narrator of the stories. In my conclusion I will sum up the detective's most significant characteristics of his Art of Detection and the features that fascinate and interest humanity for such a long time. In a final step I will draw a comparison between those two especially focussing on what makes him “the Analyst par excellence” (Howarth 106), analyse why he seems so “preternatural” (May 87) and what his recurrent methods in those two stories are. Auguste Dupin, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and afterwards in the last story of the three, The Purloined Letter. On this account I will proceed with a Dupin-like method by analysing his methods in the first story that broaches the issue of C. In this term paper I aim to explain Dupin's captivating and one-of-a-kind Art of Detection. But what do his exceptional methods conducive to this? But what is it about the first armchair-detective that fascinates people and made him that successful? Poe answered this denotative question as following: It is “ the sheer delight of ‘analysis’, the ‘activity that disentangles’, that attracts fans of literary detection.” (Rzepka and Horsley 3). Edgar Allan Poe “ was the first to create the intelligent, infallible, isolated hero so important to crime fiction of the last hundred years.” (Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction 39). Auguste Dupin is considered to the very first armchair-detective and thus laid the foundation for a number of rather famous crime fiction stories. Moreover, Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rôget and The Purloined Letter “ introduce that mainstay of mystery fiction - from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot - the amateur sleuth who solves crimes from the comfort of his armchair” (May 87). He is known as the “father of detection“ (Rzepka and Horsley 22) because “ no set of tales has had more impact on literature and culture in the English-speaking world and beyond.” (Rzepka and Horsley 370). Poe “ had been called the inventor of the detective story, by no less an authority than Arthur Conan Doyle ” (Howarth 103). He introduced therewith a new genre which we know today as crime fiction. With The Murders in the Rue Morgue published in 1841 Edgar Allan Poe first introduced his detective C.
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