Leonardo Sciascia’s oeuvre is related to both politics and the detective genre. The reader is thus invited to consider the possibility of a link between these two essential components and to study his novels from that point ...

Rodolfo Walsh is a writer little known outside Argentina. Considered by some critiques as a simple journalist and not as a writer, he always maintained a confrontational relationship with detective novel. This article ...

The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...

The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...

Twentieth century Argentine literature plays with genre. From the military junta’s dictatorship whose violence and clandestineness provoked historiography’s interruption in 1976, we discover a number of novels that closely ...

The narrative conventions which underlie and structure the detective novel’s intrigue have been the object of pastiches, parodies and ironic subversions in a number of important works of the last half century. From Gommes ...

Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes.

In the context of a reflection which is centred around the relationship between the detective novel and politics, the works of Yasmina Khadra constitute an important example which merits attention; because of the contend ...