La ciudad norteamericana en la ficción criminal contemporáneaGeorge Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Richard Price y The Wire

Abstract

The dissertion analyzes the way the American city is represented in the crime fiction through the work of four authors: George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Richard price and David Simon, the showrunner of HBO’s The Wire. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that crime fiction is one of the most suitable literary genres to make the contemporary city legible as well as to show the processes of transformation it undergoes. It approaches in its first part the situation of space in literary theory and examines the evolution of the city at the same time as its treatment in literature. The second part is devoted to analyze the fictions of the afore mentioned authors to prove the power of the genre in portraying the changes in the contemporary city and how these changes are similar to those in Western societies.