(David Suchet, 데이빗 서쳇이 아니라 쓰쉐..라고 발음한다. 적어도 데이빗, 본인은)

 

 

역사상 불발된 탐정들의 이름을 보아도 Hercules란 이름이 많이 사용되었다. 하지만, 이처럼 상반된 이미지를 보여주는 탐정이 있을까? 다소 자뻑하는 캐릭터를 좋아하는 까닭에 이 쁘아호는 내가 가장 좋아하는 탐정이다. 그가 [커텐]에서 죽음을 맞이할때 어찌나 슬펐던지...

 

하지만, 아가사 크리스티는 (어쩜 셜록홈즈에 싫증을 내 스스로 밥줄을 끊어 그를 폭포에서 죽게만들었다 살린 코난 도일처럼) 그에게 염증을 냈다고 한다.

 

 

 

 

Why not make my detective a Belgian?...I could see him as a tidy little man, always arranging things, liking things in pairs, liking things square instead of round.  And he should be brainy – he should have little grey cells of the mind.” Agatha Christie – An Autobiography  

 

 

"탐정을 벨기에 사람으로 하면 어떨까? 좀 작고, 언제나 쌍을 맞춰서 물건을 가지런히 하고, 둥근것보다는 네모난 것을 좋아하는...그러니까 좀 두뇌형이라 회색뇌세포를 가진 듯 말야!" 라고 아가사 크리스티는 그의 탄생을 이렇게 중얼거리면서 만들었다.

 

 

And so one of the greatest detectives in literature was born!

Hercule Poirot made his first appearance in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, called upon by his friend Hastings, to solve a most mysterious murder.  This Belgian refugee from the First World War began his career as a police officer - Christie felt it only fitting that he had a professional background as it would explain his knowledge of police proceedings when he later became a private detective.  He began his private career on the continent, which is where he formed his lifelong friendship with Hastings.

Poirot would be the first to call himself a great man - he has never been known for his modesty - but with such success in his career he is quite justified in his opinion! 

 

이 문학상 가장 유명한 탐정중 하나에 꼽히는 에르큘 쁘아호의 첫데뷔작은 [스타일스 저택의 사건]이며, 여기서 친구 헤이스팅스를 만난다. 세계1차세계대전으로 피난온 이 벨기에인은 전직 경찰이었으며 - 아가사 크리스티는 그래서 이 인물이 수사절차를 알고있어 사립탐정이 되기 최적이 되도록 한것이다. 불라불라..하고 뽀아호는 스스로 위대한 인물이라고 부른 유일한 인물이 되었는데... -  자뻑하는 본인의 평에 걸맞는 성공을 거두게 된다.

 

He finishes each case with a dramatic dénouement, satisfying his own ego and confirming to all, that he is truly “the greatest mind in Europe.”  His love of elegance, beauty, and precision, as well as his eccentric mannerisms are often ridiculed by the local bumbling policemen, but it is always Poirot who has the last word!

 

불라불라..하고 우아하고, 아름답고 정확함을 사랑하는 그는, 조금 이상한 수사방법 때문에 경찰들의 비웃음을 사지만 결국 사건을 해결하는 것은 쁘아호가 된다.  

 

Christie's inspiration for Poirot lay behind the Belgian refugees who had escaped the war and made their home in the Parish of Torre.  Christie had seen how the locals had opened their arms to them and how some, not understanding the British way of life, preferred to do things their own way.  Christie decided to make Poirot more mature, a decision she would later regret; “the result is that my fictional detective is well over a hundred by now.” 

 

아가사 크리스티는 쁘아호를 탄생시킴에 있어, Torre로 온 벨기에 피난민이 영국식을 받아들이면서도 본국의 것을 선호하는 것을 보고서였으며, 보다 나이든 것으로  시작해서 작품이 발표되면서 결과적으로 나이를 100살정도 먹게되었다고 쬐금 후회했다.

 

But not even Christie could ever have imagined how popular Poirot would become, nor how many stories she would write about him.  He would star in thirty-three novels and fifty-four short stories, including some of Christie’s best such as Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Death on the Nile. 

 

 

33편의 작품과 54편의 단편에서 활약하는 그는, 아가사 크리스티 베스트로 꼽히는 [오리엔트 특급살인사건], [애크로이드 살인사건], 그리고 [나일강 살인사건]에 등장한다.

 

Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history and this was certainly achieved on his death in 1975; Poirot became the only fictional character in history to be honoured with an obituary on the front of The New York Times!

 

그는 1975년 죽음을 맞게되며, 픽션에 나오는 인물로서는 유일하게 뉴욕타임즈의 부고난에 실렸다.

 

As a character, he has been played by many great actors.  The first was Austin Trevor who would appear in Alibi, Black Coffee and Lord Edgware Dies.  Trevor would also play a small role in The Alphabet Murders which starred Tony Randall as Poirot and was made by MGM in 1965. 

 

Academy Award nominee Albert Finney appeared as Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express in 1974;

 

1974년엔 [오리엔트 특급살인사건]에서 알버트 피니

 

 

when this was remade in 2001 it starred Albert Molina in the role of the great detective. 

 

 

The great Peter Ustinov, winner of two Academy Awards, played Poirot in six films.  Though the fictional Poirot looks little like Ustinov, he successfully captured the Belgian and is much loved by the public.

 

2회 오스카상 수상자인 피터 유스티노프경이 6편의 영화에서 쁘아호를 연기했으며, 사람들은 쁘아호하면 그를 연상하게 된다. 블라블라

 

 

Perhaps, however, the actor most synonymous with Poirot is David Suchet, who first appeared in the role in 1989.  Agatha Christie never saw David Suchet in the role but her grandson Mathew has commented:  “Personally, I regret very much that she never saw David Suchet.  I think that visually he is much the most convincing and perhaps he manages to convey to the viewer just enough of the irritation that we always associate with the perfectionist, to be convincing!”

 

 

그렇지만, 쁘아호하고 가장 닮은 모습은 데이빗 쓰쉐이고..아가사 크리스티는 그를 생전에 보지못했지만 그녀의 손자인 매튜는 "개인적으로 할머니가 그의 연기를 보지 못한게 참 안타깝습니다. 시각적으로는 거의 완벽한데다가, 보는 사람으로 하여금 완벽주의자를 보면 짜증나는 것과 같이 그를 보면 느끼는 감정까지 그대로 살려내니까요"

 

Poirot Stories

• After the Funeral


• Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Life and Times


• Appointment With Death


• Black Coffee


• Cards on the Table


• Cat Among the Pigeons


• Curtain: Poirot's Last Case


• Dead Man's Folly


• Dead Man's Mirror


• Death in the Clouds


• Death on the Nile


• Double Sin


• Dumb Witness


• Elephants Can Remember


• Evil Under the Sun


• Five Little Pigs


• Four and Twenty Blackbirds


• Hallowe'en Party


• Hercule Poirot's Christmas


• Hickory Dickory Dock


• How Does Your Garden Grow?


• Lord Edgware Dies


• Mrs. McGinty's Dead


• Murder in Mesopotamia


• Murder in the Mews


• Murder on the Links


• Murder on the Orient Express


• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe


• Peril at End House


• Poirot's Early Cases


• Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories


• Sad Cypress


• Taken at the Flood


• The ABC Murders


• The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly


• The Adventure of the Cheap Flat


• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding


• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding


• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook


• The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb


• The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman


• The Adventure of the King of Clubs


• The Adventure of 'The Western Star'


• The Affair at the Victory Ball


• The Apples of Hesperides


• The Arcadian Deer


• The Augean Stables


• The Big Four


• The Capture of Cerberus


• The Case of the Missing Will


• The Chocolate Box


• The Clocks


• The Cornish Mystery


• The Cretan Bull


• The Disappearance of Davenheim


• The Double Clue


• The Dream


• The Erymanthian Boar


• The Flock of Geryon


• The Girdle of Hyppolita


• The Hollow


• The Horses of Diomedes


• The House of Dreams


• The Incredible Theft


• The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan


• The Kidnapped Prime Minister


• The Labours of Hercules


• The Lernean Hydra


• The Lost Mine


• The Market Basing Mystery


• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd


• The Mysterious Affair at Styles


• The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge


• The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest


• The Mystery of the Blue Train


• The Mystery of the Spanish Chest


• The Nemean Lion


• The Stymphalean Birds


• The Submarine Plans


• The Under Dog


• The Under Dog and Other Stories


• The Veiled Lady


• Third Floor Flat


• Third Girl


• Three Act Tragedy


• Three Blind Mice and Other Stories


• Tragedy at Marsdon Manor


• Wasp's Nest


• Yellow Iris

출처: http://www.agathachristie.com/story-explorer/characters/poirot/

 

 

 

 

=========== Timeline

 

 1904--Poirot retires from Belgian police force as detective

Has own practice in Europe, meets Inspector James Japp & later Captain Arthur Hastings

 1916--Arrives to England as a Belgian refugee from WWI

Aided by Mrs. Inglethorpe of Styles Court, meets Hastings again

Solves murder at Styles Court with Hastings & Japp

Sets up practice in England, moves to 14 Farraway Street, London, with Hastings

 1923--Poirot & Hastings solve murder in France, Hastings marries Dulcie and moves to Argentina

 1925?--Poirot solves jewel theft, meets the Russian Countess Vera Rossakoff for first time

 1926--Poirot unmasks member of the "Big Four" with Hastings, meets with Countess Rossakoff again

Retires and goes to King's Abbot to grow vegetable marrows for a year, solves the murder of Mr. Ackroyd

 1928--While in France, Poirot solves a jewel theft & murder of American heiress, hires Georges as valet

 1932--Poirot & Hastings (back from Argentina) are vacationing in St. Loo and uncover murder attempts

 1934?--Poirot moves to 28 Whitehaven Mansions

 1935--Poirot travels in airplane to England where a French moneylender is murdered, Japp helps

Poirot solves ABC Murders with Hastings (visits from Argentina) & Japp

 1936--Poirot and fellow sleuths Colonel Race, Battle, and Ariadne Oliver solve murder of dinner host

 1937--Poirot meets Colonel Race again and solves murder on the Nile River

Hastings helps Poirot solve case about "accident" of old lady

Poirot & Inspector Japp investigate a girl's suicide/murder

 1939?--Felicity Lemon is hired by Poirot to be his secretary

 1941--Poirot goes to the Jolly Roger Hotel and solves crime there

 1946--Poirot unexpectedly sees Countess Rossakoff years later, now as a proprietor of a nightclub

 1948--Poirot travels to Warmsley Vale to solve murder of young wife

 1952--Poirot, Mrs. Oliver, Spence join to solve old lady's murder and clear an innocent man

 1955--Miss Lemon's sister comes to Poirot asking for help at youth hostel

 1956--Mrs. Oliver asks Poirot to help in a real murder hunt of a young girl

 1963--Colin Lamb asks Poirot for help in murder of an unknown man

 1969--Poirot joins forces with Spence (and Mrs. Oliver) in a Halloween Party murder

 1972--Poirot helps Mrs. Oliver & Spence solve a decades-old murder/suicide

 1975--Georges leaves employ of Poirot, Poirot goes to Styles Court

Poirot & Hastings track down murderer in Poirot's last case at Styles

Hercule Poirot, Belgian detective, dies at Styles Court

 

 

(출처:http://www.poirot.us/timeline.php)

 

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Hastings

“It is indeed mon ami Hastings!” Hercule Poirot – The Mysterious Affair at Styles

 

Captain Arthur Hastings first appeared with Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Christie described Hastings as Poirot’s ‘Watson’ - and he does indeed chronicle some of Poirot's most famous cases. This upper class, British Officer, with a penchant for women with auburn hair, was nowhere near as clever as his ‘Sherlock Holmes’.

 

 

쁘아호의 왓슨

 

중요한 사건 기록

 

상류층 출신, 전직 군장교

 

 

 

However, his presence is sometimes crucial as in The ABC Murders when his off the cuff remark leads Poirot to the killer.

 

[ABC살인사건]과 같은 경우에는 중요한 역할을 담당

 

At the beginning of Christie's career she felt that the ‘eccentric detective’ needed a solid British sidekick to make her creation more accessible. Although Christie enjoyed writing Hastings, she was happy to admit he was a ‘stereotyped creation’.

 

특이한 탐정에게 다가가기 쉽도록 전형적인 인물로 탄생

 

 

Though Hastings appears in a number of Poirot short stories he would appear in only eight novels. As Christie’s confidence in her writing grew, she no longer felt he was necessary.

 

그에 대한 필요성이 점점 줄어들어

 

 

In Murder in the Links she decided to marry Hastings off: “I think I was getting a little tired of him.  I might be stuck with Poirot, but no need to be stuck with Hastings too.”

 

 

[골프장 살인사건]에선 결혼한 것으로 인물을 뺐음

"쁘아호에게 질렸는데, 헤이스팅마저 질리게 될 필요는 없잖아?"

 

 

He would appear in a further six novels when visiting Poirot from his new home of Argentina. It was also only fitting that he would appear in Curtains: Poirot’s Last Case, where the two friends are reunited at Styles, the scene of their first introduction.

 

아르젠티나에서 귀국해서 [커텐]에서 친구와 조우하여 죽음을 맞이하기 되는데

 

 

Despite his few appearances in the novels, Hastings is a much loved character. His popularity is in part due to the wonderful performance of Hugh Fraser who portrayed him in the ITV adaptations.

Find out more about him in The Complete Battles of Hastings published by HarperCollins

 

 

 

Hastings Stories

• Black Coffee


• Curtain: Poirot's Last Case


• Dumb Witness


• Lord Edgware Dies


• Murder in the Mews


• Peril at End House


• The ABC Murders


• The Big Four


• The Kidnapped Prime Minister


• The Mysterious Affair at Styles


• Wasp's Nest

 

Chief Inspector Japp

“Me and Moosier have met before – and there’s no man’s judgement I’d sooner take than his.”        

                                                                                Japp – The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Detective Chief Inspector Japp clearly thinks highly of Hercule Poirot. 

 

 

쁘아호를 높게 평가

 

The Scotland Yard detective appears in Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, where it is made quite clear that he and Poirot have worked together before: “It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery case – you remember, he was run down in Brussels.  Ah, those were great days, Moosier.  Then do you remember “Baron” Altara?  There was a pretty rogue for you!  He eluded the clutches of half the police in Europe.  But we nailed him in Antwerp – thanks to Mr Poirot here.” 

 

 

쁘아호가 벨기에 경찰일떄 같이 같이 일한 적이 있음. 그덕에 위조범 체포했음

 

Clearly Japp has a lot to thank Poirot for and it is no wonder he thinks so highly of the Belgium detective.  Sadly his admiration is not wholly reciprocated.  Although Poirot does indeed like the Scotland Yard detective, he is heard to say, “I am disappointed in Japp.  He has no method.”  Often times Japp will hide behind officialdom – a serviceable detective, he is often one step behind the great Poirot!

 

 

그렇지만 쁘아호는 그를 높이 평가하지않았음 (^^;;)

 

"젭경감은 정말 실망스러워. 도대체가 방법을 모른다구!"

 

그렇지만 그는 언제나 쁘아호를 도와주면서도 셍색을 내지않는 경찰임.

 

 

Chief Inspector Japp Stories

• Death in the Clouds


• Lord Edgware Dies


• Murder in the Mews


• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe


• Peril at End House


• The ABC Murders


• The Big Four


• The Mysterious Affair at Styles


• The Under Dog and Other Stories