Crime fiction and world literature

Authors

  • Hernán Maltz Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

The article proposes an approach to crime fiction and recent debates around the problem of world literature. After determining the incorporation of the global as a theme in some fictions, evincing the place of enunciation of the analyst, and briefly reviewing the contributions that explore that intersection, two approaches are offered. On the one hand, and following the works by Casanova and Moretti, crime fiction is considered from a global and asymmetric perspective. On the other, and inspired by Luhmann, another theoretical approach is elaborated from a systemic perspective.

Keywords:

Crime Fiction, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Systems, Luhmann