RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Benčičová, Markéta
T1 Two perceptions, two paths. About fictional worlds created in the manner of the classical and hardboiled detective story
JF Romanica Olomucensia
YR 2015
VO 27
IS 2
SP 243
OP 257
DO 10.5507/ro.2015.020
UL https://romanica.upol.cz/artkey/rom-201502-0007.php
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.