Crime Novel or Generic Hybrid? The Intimate Side of Evil in Todo é silencio by Manuel Rivas

Authors

  • María Xesús Lama López

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2014.3.6

Keywords:

Manuel Rivas, Todo é silencio, crime novel, bildungsroman, social criticism

Abstract

Manuel Rivas’ contribution to crime fiction analyzes drug trafficking and the social and political corruption associated with it from a peculiarly intimate perspective. The justification for the fluctuation in the novel between the bildungsroman and the crime novel is the use of adolescents as main characters, thereby bringing to the fore the way in which organized crime breaks apart both society and individuals, as everyone, including the criminals, is destroyed by their engagement with a corrupt power. The narrative focus reinforces social and moral criticism, and relegates the restoration of order and justice to the plane of utopia.
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How to Cite

Lama López, M. X. (2014). Crime Novel or Generic Hybrid? The Intimate Side of Evil in Todo é silencio by Manuel Rivas. Abriu: Estudos De Textualidade Do Brasil, Galicia E Portugal, (3), 97–109. https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2014.3.6

Issue

No. 3 (2014): Noir and Criminal: Favela Novels and Other Fractured Genres

Section

MONOGRAPH

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