Cervantes Studies and Novel Theory in Sergio Ramírez’s Crime Trilogy
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This article examines the coherence between Sergio Ramírez’s literary theory and practice (strongly influenced by Cervantes’s poetics) in the author’s crime trilogy, which embodies narrative concepts such as verisimilitude, neutrality, metafiction, and intertextuality. Through his works, Sergio Ramírez offers an original, hybrid form of crime fiction, halfway between the neo-detective novel (rational and morally committed) and the anti-detective novel (playful and self-reflective). This fusion takes shape in a multifaceted realism, clearly comparable to the Cervantesian paradigm, which the Nicaraguan writer revisits and renews.
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