Intermedial and intertextual references in Juan Gómez-Jurado´s trilogy Red Queen
Abstract
Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of the Spanish crime fiction trilogy Red Queen, has always confessed his admiration for Arturo Pérez-Reverte, as well as for several writers and film directors. My claim is that Gómez-Jurado not only uses them as inspiration, but also as intertextual (Montaner 2003) and intermedial (Rajewsky 2020; Prieto 2017) references for his texts. In doing so, he recreates the atmosphere and the human experience in a very concrete way. Thus, he makes use of a vocabulary, a pace, and a variety of characters that can be traced back to sources such as Sherlock Holmes, James Moriarty, Harry Bosch, Phillip Marlowe, V. I. Warshawski, Tom Ripley or Pepe Carvalho. The narration, accompanied by a soundtrack of its own, follows the quick pace of film techniques while adding a pinch of Cervantine humor to create this hybrid product called crime fiction (Winslow 2022).
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