A Modern Detective by Edgar Allan PoeMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
2 simple stories whereby the main character (Auguste Dupin) due to its outstanding analytical capabilities is able to decipher & solve two unexplainable murders using his deductive capabilities based on the information he is able to see or read from the newspaper.
Good reading, short stories (bog plus) ...but not much more than that. Personally, must confess that learnt new vocabulary (not so often seen and used nowadays) and the only caveat is that most of it probably will forget due to the lack of its usage in my current readings.
A couple of quotes that caught my eye:
1. "... the analyst [...] is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural..."
2."...The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study and especially by the highest branch of it [...]has been called, as if par excellence, analysis. ..."
3. "... the difference in the extent of the information obtained, lies not so much in the validity of the inference as in the quality of the observation..."
4. "... ¡The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. ..."
5. "...the ingenious are always fanciful and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytical..."
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