is widely known that the genre is one of the most popular in world literature. When Borges wrote with Bioy Casares's Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi , a parody (phonetic redundancy is not accidental) of the genre, made a particular reading of the birth of Police. In a conference which is then introduced as a prologue to the book, said Edgar Allan Poe in fact had not only created a genre with its classic "The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", but had fathered a particular type of reader , which was an even greater merit. Yes, Poe had created a suspicious reader, full of suspicions, which reads in disbelief, with suspicion, a special suspicion . Thus, according to Borges, a reader of police coming down from another planet and you are told "Don Quixote" is actually a cop, when he finds that "Somewhere in la Mancha, whose name I prefer do not remember ... ", begins to wonder what is this place?, why Cervantes prefers not to remember?, surely has some complicity with what has happened is that then lost (or hidden) place de la Mancha .... and so continue its journey (or "research") by El Quijote looking to crack the puzzle, surely terrifying ways.
Poe and Wilkie Collins to Stieg Larsson and his trilogy on "Men Who Hate to women" , there is a long way for a genre which was a passion in those created by the first readers, including we are. Conan Doyle and the intellectual genius and a little aristocracy of Sherlock, the classic clean era of "problem novel," where the crime scene was never present, intellectual abilities were central to resolving the enigma the rational use of intelligence in an age of certainty of the positive sciences and bourgeois confidence in the strength of "Reason." Maurice Leblanc and his more worldly and even "lumpen" Arsenio Lupin, an anti-Sherlock working with intuition and cunning, rather than reason. Marlow Chandler and Hammett and others together to inaugurate the American black police and from any point of view the critical stage of the genre, where good and evil are confused, where the law does not really know where you are and the state spends large "Leviathan" and a great criminal. Expression of the crisis of the 20 and 30, prohibition, organized crime and the irrationalism of the Great War.
In Latin America we have Leonardo Padura (lately famous for his novel about Trotsky and his assassin), who allowed her to portray Mario Conde (and denounce) the contradictions of political life and its everyday contemporary Havana. Mankell tells the stories of Kurt Wallander and brings to light what modern Sweden seeks to sweep under the carpet. In the same vein Stieg Larsson led to greater fame by Swedish police, Lisbet Salander gave us an avenging the torture suffered by women and herself in the ever apparently "peaceful" and "quiet" Sweden.
Rodolfo Walsh, a friend of the family, to whom we pay tribute to paraphrase and name of this blog, make use of the genus known for complaints deeper social and political crimes committed in this country.
Ernest Mandel was among the Marxists, one of which dealt with such critically analyze literature and "distinguished himself in the detective a critical dimension of the capitalist system. In undertaking historical theorizing of European and American detective novels, Mandel reveals how gender, although in the beginning had been produced and read ideologically, the way of justification for state repression against the individual or organizational crime, evolved to the point of presenting the State as responsible for the ultimate crime. (...) Understanding the detective novel as the genre had gone from yielding that the integrative function of moral values \u200b\u200bto the denial or, at least, questioning of those values \u200b\u200bin the area of \u200b\u200bpolitical and economic power " ( see here)
do not know if Mankell, endorsed this interpretation, but in his novels and enters unravels the complex story of the murderers, the engine of hatred and revenge based on their personal (and social) , translated in some cases, bloody morbid fetishes. Here are the answers that the surface always look police ( "this can only be the work of a madman" ), can never solve.
"El Chino" lives up to this form of crime fiction. A crime dramatically in a tiny village in the Swedish forests, the murder of nearly all the inhabitants, most of them elderly and one child. Slaughtered, some cut into pieces and where the first autopsy showed that exist in the killings intended to occur long martyrdom before heading to a better life.
A deranged (or more ?)... yet terribly accurate, mass murder, meticulously planned. It was not a crime according to the country, could be for the U.S., but not for Sweden. Mankell us leads to the ancestors of some of the inhabitants of that town, when they emigrated to America and worked as "overseers" of the companies that built the network of railways and roads structural opened the first steps of American democracy. Companies with "imported" Chinese and black slaves, kidnapped in Canton or other large cities that in turn had come from the poverty of the countryside, fleeing the bloody landlords and looking for a better future. Swedish whites turn employees of construction companies and automakers rail, enslaving the "yellow dogs" and "demons" soulless and brainless black leather. A complaint, first, a "crime" massive home in the emergence of the U.S., but also a description of the hatred that almost a century after the revolution unleash China. And while a description of the corruption and the passages through which the current Chinese bureaucracy, became a new capitalist class. And "for good measure" a critique of their married life and conservative of the "successful" Swedish families, portrayed through the story of a judge (Brigitte Roslin), radical activist of the 60s, he does not remember that time and place passionate life left in those years, to become an unhappy wife and a staff responsible for providing justice impossible. Among the readers
police "pure" by Mankell, this novel had many detractors because, they say, is an excessive character "pamphleteer." After all not have read this statement Mankell which states that the police is very boring . And there will have been aware of this last great action of solidarity with the people of Gaza, when he suffered one of the many attacks of the Zionist state murderers.
For us a great book, but Kurt Wallander has not intervened in this case.
For us a great book, but Kurt Wallander has not intervened in this case.
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