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Publishers remove 'offensive passages' from Agatha Christie books
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.The works of Agatha Christie in the new edition are subjected to "politically correct" censorship [REGNUM] From the new editions of the works of the English writer Agatha Christie , published by HarperCollins, they removed passages that may seem intolerant and politically incorrect, the British Daily Telegraph reports on March 25.  We are talking about new editions that are just planned to be released or that have already been published in the period from 2020. In particular, passages containing "descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity" were removed from works written between 1920 and 1976. So, the internal monologues of two key characters of the writer, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, have been significantly changed. The word “Indian” has been removed from the original phrase “his Indian character” in The Last Things of Miss Marple and two stories in the new version of the text, and from the novel “Caribbean Mystery” an entire passage has been deleted where the character did not see a black girl in the bushes at night. Recall that at the US Merchant Marine Academy, by the decision of the leadership of the educational institution, a large picture on the biblical theme depicting Jesus Christ was covered with a curtain so that it could not offend anyone's feelings. Posted by: badanov 2023-03-27 |
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