Submitted by Verena Bastos (verena@uefs.br) on 2015-07-21T00:40:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o.pdf: 930316 bytes, checksum: c7081dbe78b85faae39c3ac523607f58 (MD5) / Submitted by Verena Bastos (verena@uefs.br) on 2015-07-21T00:40:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o.pdf: 930316 bytes, checksum: c7081dbe78b85faae39c3ac523607f58 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-21T00:40:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o.pdf: 930316 bytes, checksum: c7081dbe78b85faae39c3ac523607f58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-28 / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-21T00:40:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o.pdf: 930316 bytes, checksum: c7081dbe78b85faae39c3ac523607f58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-28 / In this dissertation, we analyze the short crime stories by Mayrant Gallo ? one of the most productive writers from Bahia presently ? trying to demonstrate the theme of crime as a metaphor of the world we live in, which is often violent and corrupt. In the work of the author in question ? as well as in the work of many others crime fiction writers ?, we show clearly that the representation of the criminal universe is a method or a means of making the reader reflect on things more widely than the simple ?who killed? questioning. We aim to demystify the ideia very widespread among literary critics that crime fiction is a ?minor genre?. In this regard, we discuss the characteristics, similarities and differences between its types: detective fiction, noir and ?action? fiction. This last type, although practiced by writers like Edgar Allan Poe e Jorge Luis Borges, for example, had its terminology coined only in 2005, by Mayrant Gallo, who is also a teacher and a crime fiction theorist, a genre which has been insufficiently researched in the academy. / Neste trabalho, analisamos os contos policiais do escritor Mayrant Gallo ? um dos mais fecundos autores da Bahia na contemporaneidade ? tentando demonstrar a tem?tica do crime como uma met?fora, uma meton?mia do mundo em que vivemos, muitas vezes violento e corrupto. Na obra do autor em foco ? assim como na de tantos outros escritores de hist?rias policiais ? evidenciamos a representa??o do universo criminal como um m?todo, um meio de levar o leitor a reflex?es bem mais amplas do que ao mero questionamento do ?quem matou?. Objetivamos desmitificar a ideia, que ainda perdura entre os cr?ticos liter?rios, de que a narrativa policial ? um ?g?nero menor?. Para tanto, discutimos as caracter?sticas, semelhan?as e diferen?as dos tipos da modalidade estudada: de enigma, noir e ?de a??o?. Este ?ltimo, apesar de ter sido praticado por escritores como Edgar Allan Poe e Jorge Luis Borges, por exemplo, teve a sua terminologia cunhada apenas em 2005, por Mayrant Gallo, que, al?m de escritor, ? professor e te?rico da literatura policial, pouco divulgada no ?mbito universit?rio.