ENIGMISTICĂ ÎN BELETRISTICĂ
MYSTERY WITHIN NON-MYSTERY

Summary/Abstract: Whether we like to admit it or not, most of us have enjoyed at least one mystery story. Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot and Ellery Queen have transcended the limits of literature and have become major characters of the popular culture. The variety of names such as the English ‚courtroom drama’, ‚cozy’, ‚crime fiction’, ‚hard-boiled fiction’, ‚legal thriller’, ‚locked room mystery’, ‚mystery fiction’ or ‚whodunit’, the German‚ ‚Krimi’ (‚Kriminalroman’ or ‚Kriminalerzählung’), the Spanish ‚novela policiaca’ or novela detectivesca’ and the French ‚roman policier’ comes to prove the popularity of the genre even more. However, there is still a certain reserve, if not ignoration, of the literary critics towards the detective fiction. Our interest here lies in the mystery writings of the ‚non-mystery’ authors such as Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Mark Twain, Daphne du Maurier, Georges Bernanos, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco and Amélie Nothomb.

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