The publisher HarperCollins has commissioned the rewrite of Agatha Christie’s novels to adapt them to “modern sensibilities,” the British newspaper The Telegraph revealed on Sunday. A decision that joins the one made by the heirs and the publishing house of the children’s author Roald Dahl and that produced a great controversy.
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According to the article in the newspaper, by ordering sensitive readers (sensitive readers) entire passages have been removed or are being rewritten for publication. Some of these reworked texts have already been published since 2020.
This committee of readers suggests the removal of “ethnic insults or references” and character descriptions that are offensive. The term “oriental” has been removed, “native” has been exchanged for “local” or the allusion to the ethnicity of a black servant, among other changes.
These changes have occurred in the Miss Marple detective series novels and in some Hercules Poirot novels, written between 1920 and 1976. Agatha Christie Limited, run by the author’s great-grandson James Prichard, manages the rights to their works for literature and cinema.