The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes
St Petersburg University and its Representative Office in Barcelona invite you to the online lecture "The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes", where we will talk about Arthur Conan Doyle and his ingenious detective. The lecture will be delivered by Nina Shcherbak, Candidate of Philology.
The London of Sherlock Holmes’ time is the capital of the most powerful state in the Great Kingdom. In October 1897, Britain celebrated the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign in splendour, and then celebrated another date − the day of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. At the same time, the cosmopolitan London of that time is a city of contrasts, where different social classes come together.
This is the era in which Sherlock Holmes appears, a decadent character with a kind of rebellion against the Crown, aesthetic independence and anti-sociality. Despite the fact that Conan Doyle’s hero helps people, his actions are motivated more by artistic inclinations and his own interests. He likes to immerse himself in investigations, like a painter or musician, who cannot live without their craft and expects no gratitude for their deeds.
Lecturer — Nina Shcherbak, Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology and Cultural Linguistics at St Petersburg University, Master of Arts (the United Kingdom), a writer and screenwriter. She is also a scriptwriter for science television shows, author of fifteen monographs, and books on linguistics, literature, language philosophy, and English literature.
The lecture will be held as part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University, the oldest university in Russia.
The lecture will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.