This study examines how the French bestselling detective novel Total Khéops (1995) by Jean-Claude Izzo relates to three literary sub-genres of detective fiction to which it mainly has been associated since it first was published: roman noir français (French roman noir), polar marseillais and Mediterranean noir. By assembling the most significant criterions of these sub-genres and analyzing their presence in Total Khéops, or its architextuality within the crime novel, this approach aims to reveal in what sub-genre this novel mainly should be categorized. The results of the study show that Total Khéops exhibits central features of all the three sub-genres, but as the findings overlap, and that several characteristic traits are possible to associate with more than one of these categories, it’s difficult to judge to which sub-genre this novel mainly belongs. However, the study indicates that the focus on the elements of place and local culture of the city of Marseille in Total Khéops sets a new standard in the way the polar marseillais was to develop to a proper sub-genre in the late 1990s: these features are to be considered as new in the domain of French crime fiction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-217754 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Österlund, Lisa |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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