Agnostic Detectives and Demiurgic Readers: The Question of Knowledge in the Crying of Lot 49 and “City of Glass”
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.20.3.127-137Keywords:
detective fiction, postmodernist literature, Thomas Pynchon, Paul AusterAbstract
Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 and Paul Auster’s City of Glass diverge from traditional mystery fiction in terms of characters, structure, and aesthetics. Both have unusual detectives who discover more about themselves and America than about a crime or a culprit; both deny a final solution by offering multiple possibilities; both comment on the nature of detective fiction in the modern and postmodern world- views. These divergences characterize them as anti-detective novels in which a disclosure of truth is denied.
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