La subversión del género policíaco en The Enigma de John Fowles.

Abstract

This paper focuses on how Fowles’s “The Enigma” subverts the conventions of the classical detective genre to foreground the world as a strange and mysterious place, thereby destroying the closure and positivism inherent in the genre parodied. In this story detective fiction is evoked intertextually in order to undermine the reader’s expectations by questioning the notion of objective reality and the detective’s function in a postmodern context. “The Enigma” is analyzed from a metafictional perspective since the narrative games Fowles creates between surrogates of writers and readers try to undermine the detective’s search for answers by reflecting on the boundaries between reality and fiction and on the nature of storytelling