Evil has motives unknown by the reason: Carlos Tromben's criminal narrative

Original title: El mal tiene motivos que la razón desconoce: La narrativa policial de Carlos Tromben

Patricia Poblete Alday(corresponding author)

*Corresponding author for this work

Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano

Research Output:

Contribution to journal

Review article

Peer-review

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:

Contribution to journal

Review article

Peer-review

Original language

Spanish

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 111-121 (11 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana (Volume 36)

Publication milestones

Published - 01/12/2007

Publication status

Published - 01/12/2007

ISSN

0210-4547

Publication IDs

Scopus: 65849504711

Abstract

Criminality written on Carlos Tromben's novels goes beyond "institucionality/public" and "private/passion" areas to come back to the basis of the policial style, using elements of the mistery novel and gothic terror. This not only questions the rationality as the way to take us to the truth and to reestablish the order after the crime, but also allows a reflexion about the atavic relationship between evil, esoterism and aesthetic.