Jorge Luis Borges (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)

Contribution

Jorge Luis Borges’ primary contribution to the detective genre is his recognition and exploitation of the fact that the genre is the quintessential model for pattern and plot in fiction. An admirer of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe since childhood, Borges saw that Poe’s development of the detective story was closely related to his theories of the highly patterned short-story genre in general; he also knew very early in his career that

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