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krol_hydropsАналитическая газета "Секретные исследования" пишет: Жертвой правок оказался профессор Мориарти, который убивает сыщика в рассказе «Последнее дело Холмса». Из рассказа (как и из фильма) совершенно неясно, почему талантливый математик, в 20 лет написавший трактат о биноме Ньютона и получивший кафедру в университете, вдруг ставится не только коварным злодеем, но еще и «главой всего преступного мира Англии». Нелепость очевидна: с какой стати молодые профессоры математики стали вдруг возглавлять иерархию уголовного мира? Меж тем ответ прост: профессору, по советскому обыкновению, подправили биографию. В дореволюционном варианте перевода рассказа «Последнее дело Холмса» (журнал «Нива», №5, 1898) никаких противоречий нет (как и в исходном английском тексте Дойла). Там ясно и четко написано, что профессор Мориарти – опаснейший революционер левых убеждений, анархист и террорист. А вовсе не преступник. И никакого «преступного мира Англии» он не возглавлял, а возглавлял все анархистское движение в этой стране, опираясь на студенчество: «Ни одно злодейство анархистов не обошлось без ученого содействия профессора Мориарти!». Оказывается, что Мориарти – это революционер-подпольщик! Конан Дойл потому и придумал такой персонаж, что он для английских обывателей являл тогда всю суть демонизма. Взрывы сотрясали Лондон: революционеры и ирландские патриоты взорвали вокзал Чаринг-Кросс, Главный почтамт Лондона, покушались на башню Биг-Бен, Вестминстерское аббатство и Арсенал, пути в подземке, казармы полиции и пр. Террор и террористы были тогда в моде среди радикалов и студенчества, поэтому поступок молодого профессора Мориарти, оставившего кафедру и ушедшего в террор, считался «пугающим подвигом».
К сожалению, в оригинале не нашел этому никаких подтверждений, там нет слов "революция" и "анархизм". Bот биография Мориарти, в ней все - так, как мы и представляли:
His career has been an extraordinary one. He is a man of good birth and excellent education. endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him. But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an army coach. So much is known to the world, but what I am telling you now is what I have myself discovered.
"As you are aware, Watson, there is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do. For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts -- forgery cases, robberies, murders -- I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted. For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when l seized my thread and followed it, until it led me. after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty, of mathematical celebrity.
"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed -- the word is passed to the professor, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his detence. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught -- never so much as suspected. This was the organization which I deduced, Watson, and which I devoted my whole energy to exposing and breaking up.
Ладно, будем считать, что газета "Секретные исследования" - пошутила, модернизируя образ Мориарти. Или же, пошутили дореволюционные переводчики, а газета - поверила им на слово.
К сожалению, в оригинале не нашел этому никаких подтверждений, там нет слов "революция" и "анархизм". Bот биография Мориарти, в ней все - так, как мы и представляли:
His career has been an extraordinary one. He is a man of good birth and excellent education. endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him. But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an army coach. So much is known to the world, but what I am telling you now is what I have myself discovered.
"As you are aware, Watson, there is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do. For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts -- forgery cases, robberies, murders -- I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted. For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when l seized my thread and followed it, until it led me. after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty, of mathematical celebrity.
"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed -- the word is passed to the professor, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his detence. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught -- never so much as suspected. This was the organization which I deduced, Watson, and which I devoted my whole energy to exposing and breaking up.
Ладно, будем считать, что газета "Секретные исследования" - пошутила, модернизируя образ Мориарти. Или же, пошутили дореволюционные переводчики, а газета - поверила им на слово.
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Date: 2007-11-02 10:11 pm (UTC)1. наши его сейчас попутали с Честертоном, см. "Человек который был Четвергом".
2. некую правку внес когда-то сам Конан Дойл.
Первое мне кажется более вероятным.