Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twen...
Kemp, Simon
Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemps investigation centres on four major writers of the twentieth ...
