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Twelve writers of detective fiction, five evenings, five sessions of social criticism: a plea on behalf of the most popular of all literary genres.

Twelve crime writers, five evenings, five sessions of social criticism: a plea in favour of the most popular of all literary genres.


Enter the Detective, and with him the politically motivated crime, the hushed up environmental scandal, the murder out of greed. Nowhere are the accelerating developments in western societies mirrored better than in the recent spate of European crime novels. There is hardly a genre that is better suited to the probing of the bottomless depths of the psyche. It is no coincidence that the subjects treated in crime novels are becoming increasingly more politicised or that the detectives, male or female, are frequently portrayed as antiheroes or antiheroines, who are deeply sensitive to the adverse social conditions in which they pursue their investigation. Crime novels are increasingly turning into socially critical analyses and, despite being anchored in the whodunnit genre, they reach – and move – many more people than the most ambitious scientific studies.

WHAT // Readings from crime novels
WHEN // November 2009
WHERE // Posthof, www.posthof.at

IDEA / CONCEPT // Wilfried Steiner
PARTICIPANTS // Tobias Gohlis, Franz Schuh, Eva Rossmann

In collaboration with LIVA/Posthof

Category: Literature

Category: Literature

Category: Literature

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Category: Literature

Category: Literature