Tzvetan Todorov The Typology Of Detective Fiction -

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Here’s a post based on Todorov’s “The Typology of Detective Fiction” (from The Poetics of Prose , 1977), tailored for a literary theory or crime fiction community. tzvetan todorov the typology of detective fiction

Todorov shows that “detective fiction” is structurally two genres fused by convention. Modern crime fiction (from True Detective to Knives Out ) often plays with — or deliberately breaks — his binary. the police procedural

“The whodunit contains two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation. The thriller contains only one.” Would you add a third type (e.g., the police procedural, the psychological thriller)? Drop your take below. 🕵️‍♂️📚 tzvetan todorov the typology of detective fiction