Editors' Preface: Crime Fictions

Goulet, Andrea; Lee, Susanna

doi:10.2307/4149293

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“…"Even before the roman noir of the mid-twentieth century took on the mission of exposing social injustice, detective fiction called various social institutions into question while gaining a foothold as an apparently normative popular genre." 13 The realist and sociocritical tendencies that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century shaped, and were in turn shaped by various subgenres, such as the increasingly popular police procedural in the Anglo-American space 14 , or the French roman noir. A very strong tradition of sociocritical crime fiction arose in Sweden 15 .…”

Section: Juhan Paju and The Estonian Crime Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Curious Case of Juhan Paju and a Fortunate Choice of Pop Lit over Poetry

Talviste¹

2022

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"This essay proposes a study of the poetics and local generic context of the work of Juhan Paju (1939–2003), arguably one of the very few original Estonian crime writers emerged from the twentieth century. The focus is on five of his novels centred on investigations led by Toivo Kivistik, a small-town police detective. The series is set in the last decades of the twentieth and the early years of the twenty-first century. This tumultuous period in local history has provided rich material for socially relevant themes. Paju’s work is original in treating this material, but also in his experiments with generic conventions, which he progressively adapts to his own talent and to the local context."

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Section: Juhan Paju and The Estonian Crime Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%