SHORT HISTORY OF THE DETECTIVE NOVELS
SHORT HISTORY OF THE DETECTIVE NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: In this critical essay I have been trying to focus on an introduction in crime theory, namely in the birth of policier, the detective novel, starting with the novel of mystery and ending with le roman noir, last but not least it is focused on the birth of a new hero, the detective, the new chevalier. I have been trying to define the first attempts to give a definition of the detective novels, starting from le degree zero de l’ ecriture, as once Roland Barthes put it.

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