The thesis focuses on influences of Edgar Allan Poe on today’s most know writer of detective fiction, A. C. Doyle. In this thesis, there is a short presentation of both authors and their lives, through which the interest for writing this type of genre appeared. Poe is the beginner of the detective novel, but most people are not aware of this fact. That is why this work is concentrated on the beginnings of this genre, how it was formed and how later helped younger authors. Especially A. C. Doyle in creating today’s most known detective, Sherlock Holmes. By comparing their works, it is quickly visible how much influence Poe had on Doyle. Poe was the first person who invented the word detective and who invented the solving of the crimes the way his main character, Auguste Dupin, solved them. This written piece shows guidelines which later authors imitated, since Poe is the one who laid the foundations for writing this genre. Poe and his literature enabled later authors to become successful and for the detective novel to become one of the most read genres in literature.
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