Romantic hero Auguste Dupin as a pioneer

            The history of a detective genre has deep roots. Different detective plots and elements can be found in references of antiquity and in bible texts. The detective history has arisen simultaneously with the attempts of human consciousness to comprehend the reason of crimes' perpetration. In this quality it is present at numerous products as a part of the surrounding validity in which struggle of good and evil goes continuously and where norms of a public life are frequently broken.
             Despite of it as an independent genre the detective story appeared only in the 19th century because of Edgar Poe and his detective stories " The Murders in the Rue Morgue" which was written in 1841; " The Mystery of Marie Roget " (1842-43) and "The Purloined Letter " which was published in1844. Many critics, scholars, writers and just fans of his literature alike agree that Edgar Allan Poe is indisputably the ancestor of a fictional detective in its basic elements both in American and in the world literature. Edgar Allan Poe is usually called the "father of the modern mystery."
             The main and one of the most recognizable characters of these detective stories is an amateur detective, the Chevalier Auguste Dupin. He is one of the most important creations in history of a detective genre on two principal causes. The first cause is that he is the first character who has brilliant detective abilities and using them for unearthing the mystery of different crimes. The second cause is that Edgar Poe's three short stories about him, which do not exceed more than one hundred pages, had been written when the detective genre did not exist yet. Besides, during the writing of these stories in 1840, there were not such detectives and bloodhounds in a real life.
             For the first time the detective Auguste Dupin had appeared in the story " The Murders in the Rue Morgue". From this story we get the information about him from the anonymous story-teller (...

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