THE LITERARY GENRE OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL. THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL LANDMARKS FROM THE ROMANIAN AND EUROPEAN CULTURAL SPACE

Abstract

In an initial period, in which detective writing – if we can so pretentiously
refer to the baggage of melodrama, thickly drawn suspense, theatrical heroes and
sought-afterlanguage – needs to be attached the justifying label of moral quality,
the Romanian authorsonly get the training to publish titles, not to play in the
league of senior literatures, from France, Great Britain or United States of America.
The public, like its swriters, is at the beginning of the state of organizing an
aesthetic, having unequal access to the writers of the time, both Romanian and
foreign, some coming from great literature, the others – successful representatives
of popular literature. In contemporary times, when genres mix fluidly within the
same volume, the detective component represents the narrative arc around which
characters are built, moods are built, and time is relativized, the sequence of
flashbacks and flashforwards anesthetizing the common linearity of the classic
novel.