Las tradiciones revolucionarias y el género policial argentino. Una lectura de Los muros azules, de Juan Carlos Martelli

Abstract

This paper discusses how the detective novel we analyze narrates a revolution, in order to examine central concepts of Marxism (the State, class, the stages of capitalism) which guide, in turn, a way of reading the criminal story that underlies the plot. The introduction of espionage through the networks of illegal international trade in the Antilles (where an independent rebellion with socialist elements arises), imposes the search for new tools for reading the detective genre and redefining it. Crime as a branch of social production is the mediating instrument that allows us to read the contradictions in the modes of production, where old forms survive with anticipatory elements that are put in tension in a rebellion traversed by the international configuration of crime.

Keywords

• novela policial
• delito
• revolución
• marxismo
• modo de producción