Approaching a Definition of the Costa Rican Neo-Detective Novel

 

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Authors: Solano Moraga, Sigrid, Camacho Arias, Ariadne
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2022
Description:Mariposas negras para un asesino (2005) and El laberinto del verdugo (2010), by Jorge Méndez Limbrick, come close to the condition of a Costa Rican neo-detective novel, within the Central American neo-detective framework. The relationship of these novels with that genre will be analyzed. A series of qualities will be proposed, such as the construction of complete characters, the exposure of crude realism and the presence of the night as a transcendental element for the emergence of crime, as the basis of a genre that is beginning to be defined and spread in the Costa Rican narrative.
Country:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/16556
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/16556
Keyword:neo-detective novel
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Costa Rican novel
neo-crime fiction
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