Transmedia narratives and binging experiences: Ricardo Piglia’s Los casos del comisario Croce as a theoretical project

Abstract

From a narratological perspective the paper argues that Ricardo Piglia’s posthumous book Los casos del comisario Croce offers readers a theoretical project on transmedia narratives and storytelling. The reading of Los casos del comisario Croce as a transmedial narrative centers in two aspects: 1) Piglia’s use of a text written by Marx on productivity and the professions as threshold for his transmedial narration; 2) binging engagement from the transmedial logic used for characterizations and the transmedial whodunit structure logic.

Keywords

• ricardo piglia
• los casos del comisario croce
• transmedia narratives
• detective fiction
• argentine literature