Alan Turing Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/alan-turing/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:12:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alan Turing Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/alan-turing/ 32 32 Probe into death of iconic codebreaker https://jjcornish.com/2020/11/probe-into-death-of-iconic-codebreaker/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:12:04 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/?p=30649 “Fall Of Man In Wilmslow,” by David Lagercrantz is a detective novel about the investigation into the death of iconic English codebreaker Alan Turing. The procedural genre, best left to Swedish writers in my opinion, draws one deeply into the investigation. The quintessential Englishness of this book, written in Swedish, is a tribute to the […]

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]]> “Fall Of Man In Wilmslow,” by David Lagercrantz is a detective novel about the investigation into the death of iconic English codebreaker Alan Turing.

The procedural genre, best left to Swedish writers in my opinion, draws one deeply into the investigation.

The quintessential Englishness of this book, written in Swedish, is a tribute to the translator George Goulding.

There are fascinating extra dimensions to this book: the liar’s paradox for, example, that makes the statement “I am a liar” an enunciation of the truth.

There is also a unsettling blast from the path with Turing being hounded, and convicted, for his homosexuality. Part of his sentence involves being forced to take female hormones in a bizarre experiment.

Lagercrantz succinctly makes the point that Turing never received proper recognition for his contribution to Britain’s wartime victory. 2020-11-05

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