“Killing must have a point” News stories and bloody parody in Raphaël Majan’s Les Contre-Enquêtes du Commissaire Liberty
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Enquêtes et Réels
2020 – 3. En quête du réel ? - Author: Roudier (Luce)
- Pages: 81 to 94
- Journal: Journal of Modern Literature
- Series: Séries policières, n° 1
This paper studies the “inverted” process of Raphaël Majan’s crime novel, in which the police chief himself commits murders in order to then open investigations on them. The different murder cases play with the codes of news stories, particularly in terms of the situations and victims chosen.
- CLIL theme: 4025 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Méthodologie
- ISBN: 978-2-406-10387-5
- EAN: 9782406103875
- ISSN: 0035-2136
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10387-5.p.0081
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 03-10-2020
- Periodicity: Monthly
- Language: French
- Keyword: Parody, inverted search, murderer police officer, corruption, irony, criminal pastiche, conflict, absurdism
