Theoretical crime fiction: variations in the concepts of detective, truth and criminal in Los casos del comisario Croce, by Ricardo Piglia
Abstract
Los casos del comisario Croce, by Ricardo Piglia, introduces several modifications to crime fiction. Therefore, first of all, I analyze the traits of the detective, because Croce, unlike the detective in the classic police novel, a symbol of reason, practices an imaginative method, based on the philosophy of Benedetto Croce, combined with the philosophy of Kant and Wittgenstein. Secondly, Piglia shifts the focus of the crime fiction, because in these stories the revelation of the truth does not occupy the climax, on the contrary, attention shifts to what happens after the truth, which is why the notion of truth, related to the notion of justice, is destabilized in the detective fiction. Finally, I analyze the carácter of the criminal, which Piglia problematizes here, form Marx and Foucault, since Piglia questions the status of this figure in the crime fiction. Because this work studies, both explicitly and implicitly, the problems of the crime fiction, sice it is the theorical problema it tries to answer, I propose to name this work as a theoretical crime fiction.
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