O estranho caso do romance policial na literatura lusófona

Authors

  • Pierre‑Michel Pranville Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/SI.13.2014.13.14

Keywords:

Portuguese literature, detective story, whodunit novel, thriller, suspense novel

Abstract

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL IN PORTUGUESE‑SPEAKING LITERATURE

Today the detective novel has freed itself for good from being considered as marginal literature. It is now built around three sub genres: The whodunit novel, the gritty thriller, and the suspense novel whose frontiers have progressively become more and more blurred as the authors juggle with the rules of each subgenre, melting them in a literary genre they now refuse to dissociate from the main novelistic production. The Portuguese‑speaking detective stories have followed the same evolution. We have chosen to comment upon three Portuguese speaking novels: One by Pepeleta from Angola, the second by Rubem Fonseca from Brazil and the third by Ana Teresa Pereira from Portugal, each one of them representing one of the subgenres of detective literature, so as to find out if they have common specificities peculiar to the Portuguese speaking detective stories.

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Published

2014-12-30

How to Cite

Pranville, Pierre‑Michel. 2014. “O Estranho Caso Do Romance Policial Na Literatura lusófona”. Studia Iberica (Studia Iberystyczne) 13 (December):171-82. https://doi.org/10.12797/SI.13.2014.13.14.

Issue

Vol. 13 (2014): The Worlds of the Portuguese Language

Section

Literaturas e culturas em língua portuguesa

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