PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Benčičová, Markéta
TI  - Two perceptions, two paths. About fictional worlds created in the manner of the classical and hardboiled detective story
DP  - 2015 Dec 1
TA  - Romanica Olomucensia
PG  - 243--257
VI  - 27
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/ro.2015.020
IS  - 18034136
AB  - This paper tries to find new approaches to differentiate two variants on one genre, namely the classical detective story and the "novela negra". On a methodological basis it works with Lubomír Doležel's theory about possible fictional worlds in literature. Four operators are taken into account - aletic, deontic, axiological, and epistemic, both in its general and specific sense. Two noted works written by well-known Mexican authors have been chosen for investigation; one of them is a prominent representative of the classical detective story, María Elvira Bermúdez, the other one is a prolific promoter of the "novela negra" in Latin America, Paco Ignacio Taibo II.