Whodunit and hermeneutics: the collapse of the detective's argument as epistemic metaphor of "Blanco nocturno"

Abstract

When philosophy begins discarding the analytical method, the whodunit appears strongly, with a deductive structure that trusts the results to the rigor of its methodology. Ricardo Piglia -with Blanco nocturno (2010), a detective story turned inside out- doubts the literary artifice of the genre. He reflects on the interpretation, in an exercise metaliterary. He suggests a hermeneutic for the understanding, with other mechanisms that have been neglected by analytical reasoning. For example: the analogy. Close to other contemporary philosophical proposals.