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Europa Blues (L’Europe de l’Est des romans policiers scandinaves)
Europa Blues (Eastern Europe in Scandinavian Detective Novels)

Author(s): Sándor Kálai
Subject(s): Cultural history, Comparative Study of Literature, Social psychology and group interaction, Globalization
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Scandinavian Literature; Detective Novels; Inger Wolf; Arne Dahl; Jo Nesbø; Diversity; Globalization; Stereotypes;

Summary/Abstract: The Scandinavian detective novel(or at least some of its authors) elaborates on local materials in an increasingly global or European context. From the perspective of its social relevance, the detective novel provides some of the most influential representations of Otherness. What interests us here is the place of Eastern Europe in the novels of certain Nordic Noir authors: Inger Wolf, Arne Dahland Jo Nesbø. The dynamics between private and public, individual and collective, as well as the rich representation of different forms of mobility make it possible to build a wide variety of character identities, and to embrace both the local and the European/global.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 185-197
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French