Daniel Arrieta    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2017/05/27
Presentation Theme	Twists and turns of today's Spanish hard-boiled crime novels
Conference	日本・スペイン・ラテンアメリカ学会(CANELA)第29回大会
Conference Type	Domestic
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Details	Since the dawn of the 21st century, the black novel in Spain has been evolving and has followed different paths, some of which we want to show in this communication, while we will look for elements common to all of them: Snow is empty (2000), by Benjamín Prado becomes a metatextual experiment where the narrator hides from the reader, explaining beforehand that he will be one of the three main characters in the novel and perhaps the murderer. Similarly, Eduardo Lago uses conventions of the genre and intertextuality in I always knew I would see you again, Aurora Lee, from 2013, approaching parody. Two other recent novels involve more conventional texts: Lorenzo Silva's El alquimista impatient (2000), follows a couple of civil guards, Sergeant Rubén Bevilacqua and young guard Virginia Chamorro, and contains numerous references to Hollywood cinema. In the case of Don de Lenguas (2013), written by Rosa Ribas and Sabine Hofmann, the detectives will be two women: a young journalist and a university professor in Barcelona in 1952, where the investigation itself becomes a philological game with Spanish literature as the protagonist.