CRIME FICTION IN A TIME OF CRISIS: SOCIETY IN TRANSITION IN THE DETECTIVE SERIES BY MANUEL VÁSQUEZ MONTALBÁN AND LEONARDO PADURA

• Authors: Tosik Magdalena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The analysis focuses on crime series by Manuel Vásquez Montalbán (the Pepe Carvalho series, Spain, 1974-2004) and Leonardo Padura (the Mario Conde series, Cuba, 1989-2018). Both authors chronicle historical momentum in form of detective series initiated by drastic social changes: the Spanish Transition (1975-1982) and the Special Period in Time of Peace (1991-2000) in Cuba respectively. The article attempts to track how both authors employ the notion of space, time and mobility within the genre while portraying society in transition.

Keywords

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VÁSQUEZ MONTALBÁN MANUEL; PADURA LEONARDO; SPANISH TRANSITION; COGNITIVE MODEL; CRIME FICTION; DETECTIVE SERIES

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 61 – 71

Contributors

author

Tosik Magdalena

• Department of Italian Literature and Literature in Spain, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Torun, Poland