Genre Overlap of Swedish Detective Novel and the View of Czech Literary Reviewers on this Phenomenon
2014
Abstract
The unconventional conception of the Swedish detective novel genre has its roots in the second half of the 1960's and in the first half of the 1970's, when the author couple Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote their series of ten so called "novels about crime". The innovative approach of them was a socially committed bias of the larger part of the series.
These novels are nowdays seen as a part of the general Swedish literary canon. The authors, well-known and widely read even by Czech readers, forced a way for their other Swedish author colleagues, such as Stieg Larsson and his Millenium-trilogy.
This study raises a question, how Czech literary reviewers viewed and view the above mentioned genre enjambement of the Swedish detective novel.