How to Fall Back in Love with Detective Novels
How to Fall Back in Love with Detective Novels

Summary/Abstract: The problem with detective novels is that we love them only as long as they keep us under the pressure of suspense. When the mystery is decoded and we discover the key to the narratives, the detective novel is forgotten faster than any other kind of novel. How are we to read these texts such that they remain in the reader’s memory and, especially, re-discoverable? Mihai Iovănel proposes a hermeneutic based on re-reading the text, and his radiographies, written in an attractive and dynamic style, are convincing and, for that reason, paradoxical.

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