OUR “sensitive readers” continue your work. After Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, it is Agatha Christie’s turn to go through the hands of these proofreaders, who scrutinize books for passages that might offend modern sensibilities. According to TelegramThe Adventures of Detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, published since 2020, have been rewritten and modified by American publisher Harper Collins to remove any potentially offensive or controversial language.
According to the newspaper, dozens of changes were made to the texts written from 1920 to 1976. “deprive them of many passages that contain descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity, especially for characters that Christie’s protagonists encounter outside the UK”.
IN Death on the Nile (1973) Mrs. Allerton’s character complains about a group of children who are stalking her. “They come back and look and look, and their eyes are just disgusting, and their noses too, and I don’t think I really like children”writes Agatha Christie. In the new version, the character states: “They come back and look and look. And I don’t think I really like kids.”
“Eastern”, gypsy, “indigenous”, terms removed.
Terms like “Oriental” were also withdrawn, as were “Gypsy”in a sentence “a young gypsy woman” which could be read in Mysterious matter of style. In the same work, Hercule Poirot points out that the character “Jewish”, a word that no longer appears in the new version. IN Miss Marple bows, “Indian temperament” Indian Judge Who Gets Angry Becomes Fair “his temper”. All links to “native” have also been removed or replaced by the word “local”.
- Diluted in the UK, Roald Dahl’s novels won’t be changed in France
In 2020 we don’t have to get sick anymore
This is not the first time Agatha Christie’s work has been reworked. We remember that in 2020 his famous novel Ten small blacks was renamed There were 10. The decision, made by the writer’s great-grandson James Pritchard, is to do no harm. “My opinion is that Agatha Christie was primarily to entertain, and she wouldn’t like the idea of someone getting hurt by one of her turns of phrase. Today, fortunately, we can fix this without changing the text and remaining acceptable to everyone.”he talked in detail about RTL. “We should no longer use terms that can hurt: this is behavior that needs to be adopted in 2020.”
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