Naked is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes

by Sam Rosenberg

Book Overview

Sherlock Homes, fictional masterpiece of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has been cherished by generations of readers throughout the world and continues to inspire new legions of devotees. That this legendary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672519143
• ISBN13: 9780672519147
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Rosenbergian Labyrinth

Not every Sherlock Holmes fan will have the patience to follow Rosenberg down his amazing labyrinth, but the trip, I think, is worth the effort. It is sort of like meeting James Joyce on the dark side of the moon with Doyle sipping tea on the edge of madness. Is it scholarship or an enormous joke? I love this sort of literary hodgepodge. I found it fascinating if taken with just a grain of salt. Rosenberg links Holmes with Nietzsche, Wilde, Dionysus, Jesus Christ, Catullus,Bunyan, Browning, Boccaccio, Bonaparte, Racine, Frankenstein, Flaubert, George Sand, Plato, Poe, Neruda, etc. etc. etc. Is that your cup of tea? Sip it carefully. Have a ball.