Daniel Arrieta    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2019/05/05
Presentation Theme	Intertextual uses and genre transgression in Marta Sanz's detective novels.
Conference	日本・スペイン・ラテンアメリカ学会(CANELA)第31回大会
Conference Type	Domestic
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Details	To date, Marta Sanz has published two detective novels: Black, black, black (2010) and A good detective never gets married (2012). Both share the protagonist, Arturo Zarco, a forty-year-old homosexual who is helped by his ex-wife in –or rather solves– the investigations, and contain numerous elements of the detective genre, either in its most “black” aspect or in the more traditional enigma novel, as is the case with the second book. In addition to pastiche and parody, numerous intertextual elements emerge in both novels, including allusions and metatextual comments on the American hard-boiled, Agatha Christie, and Nabokov's Lolita. We also find inserted genres and discursive styles such as the diary, the gothic story, the fairy tale, the confession, the psychological novel... Through the generic and intertextual analysis of both novels, we will compare both procedures of literary creation that allow the author deal with issues such as immigration, homosexuality, the housing bubble, incest and the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie. We will also study to what extent the generic characteristics that determine them are transgressed, turning them into open and dual novels, while provoking a reflection on the literary act itself.