The Method of Investigating Based on the Dialogue in Andrea Camilleri’s
Detective Stories and the Socratic Dialogue Cover Image

Metodo di indagare basato sul dialogo nella serie montalbaniana di Andrea Camilleri e strategia del dialogo filosofico
The Method of Investigating Based on the Dialogue in Andrea Camilleri’s Detective Stories and the Socratic Dialogue

Author(s): Katarzyna Piekarz
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Logic, Communication studies, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Camilleri; Socratic dialogue; investigation; truth; detective stories;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the figure of Salvo Montalbano created by Andrea Camillerim and his method of conducting investigations based on the dialogue, which creates an association with the dialogue as a way of discovering the truth adapted by Socrates. Although in the case of Socrates the purpose of the dialogue was to lead his interlocutor to the discovery of the truth, in Camilleri’s stories, it is Montalbano himself who gains the knowledge and arrives at the truth. But both of them want to discover the truth at all costs, both demonstrate thorough knowledge of the human psychology, and both employ deception and irony, both make use of logic to draw their conclusions, and – last though not least – for both Socrates and Montalbano humor plays an important part in their way of conducting the dialogues.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 173-181
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Italian