Neopolicial: el escritor como detective en Una novela criminal de Jorge Volpi

Abstract

In the present study, we develop a literary analysis of A Criminal Novel by Jorge Volpi to show that the neopolicial category defines this work more precisely, even though several genres/subgenres coexist in its narrative (neopolicial, chronicle, documentary novel, not fiction). Then, we reflect on the figure of Jorge Volpi as an author, narrator-researcher, narrator-author and neo-detective character within his novel, whose term was a finding that emerged as a result of our reading. To support the validity of these statements, we rely on references from the Latin American police and neo-police, such as Rodolfo Walsh, Ricardo Piglia, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, among others. Therefore, our objective is to identify the elements of the Latin American neopolitical novel and the writer as a neodetective character in his work