Dirk Gently (real name Svlad Cjelli, also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous Fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. He is portrayed as an overweight man who normally wears a heavy old light brown suit, red checked shirt with a green striped tie, long leather coat, red hat and thick metal-rimmed spectacles.
"Dirk Gently" is not the character's real name; it is noted early on in the first book that it is a pseudonym for "Svlad Cjelli". Dirk himself states that the name has a "Scottish dagger feel" to it. Dirk is a Scots word for a short Dagger; sometimes a cut-down Sword blade mounted on a dagger Hilt, rather than a knife blade
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Holistic Detective
Dirk bills himself as a "holistic detective" who makes use of "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things" to solve the whole crime, and find the whole person. Distinguish from the suffix -holism, which describes addictions Interconnectedness is part of the terminology of a worldview which sees a Oneness in all things This involves running up large expense accounts and then claiming that every item (such as needing to go to a tropical beach in the Bahamas for three weeks) was, due to the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things", actually a vital part of the investigation. Challenged on this point in the first novel, he claims that he cannot in fairness be considered to have ripped anybody off, because none of his clients have paid him yet. He maintains an office at 33a Peckender St. N1 London, with telephone number 01-354 9112 (407-2882 in the advertising campaign for the book). London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Once a student at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge, he left in disgrace when on one occasion, attempted to acquire money by selling exam papers for the upcoming tests. St Cedd's College is a fictional college, created by Douglas Adams, of Cambridge University. His fellow students were convinced that he had produced the papers under hypnosis — in reality, he had simply studied previous papers and determined potential patterns in the questions. However when his papers turned out to be exactly the same as the real papers, to the very comma, he was arrested and sent to prison. This is but one example of Gently's odd facility for accurate assumptions: every wild guess and flippant answer he makes turns out to be absolutely true.
Personifications
Dirk Gently was played by Michael Bywater in the 1992 TV documentary The South Bank Show, Scot Burklin in a 2006 production of the play "Dirk" and is played by Harry Enfield in the 2007 BBC Radio 4 adaptation. Michael Bywater (born 11th May 1953 is a British writer and broadcaster The South Bank Show is an award-winning Television arts magazine show made by London Weekend Television, presented by Melvyn Bragg, broadcast Dirk is a stage play adapted from the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Harry Enfield (born 30 May, 1961 in Sussex, England) is an English Comedian, Actor and Writer Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams.
Further Appearance
Douglas Adams was working on a third Dirk Gently novel, The Salmon of Doubt, at the time of his death, but some of the ideas he developed were not really working within a Dirk Gently framework. The Salmon of Doubt Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams. Those ideas would have been salvaged, undergoing necessary changes on the way, and put into a sixth Hitchhiker's book[1]. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series
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