Category: Literary Scholar
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Criminalistic Deconstruction. On the Poetics of Postmodern Crime Novels
The classic detectives have always been successful in their search for the truth. The ambiguous clues they had to decipher were the narrative building blocks of a clear solution. Borges, Gadda, Robbe-Grillet, Pynchon, Perec, Auster and others introduce failed detectives in their stories, thus suspending the causal logic and order of narratives at whose conclusion…