POINTS OF VIEW ON THE DETECTIVE NOVEL
POINTS OF VIEW ON THE DETECTIVE NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: The present study, „Points of view on the detective novel” deals with „a kind of literature apparently mourning”. In fact, the aim of this study is to approach the detective novel by presenting several meanings of the term. The different points of view on the term „detective novel” made it a hybrid literary genre, a border text between literature and paraliterature. Its definitions are, as the study will show, incomplete, contradictory or complementary. The issues related to the detective novel seen as game, drama, reading machine, or problem-novel, as it was considered since the very appearance of this genre, have been gradually expanding. Finally, the definition of the detective novel could be greatly extended, from a literature for escaping from literature towards a literature at the edge of literature, that is paraliterature, towards an objective literature, lacking sentimentalism, which calls on intelligence and logic. The main points of view belong to Roger Caillois, Thomas Narcejac, Karel Čapek, W H Auden, Daniela Zecca, Marjorie Nicholson.

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