Il paradigma poliziesco nel romanzo di non-fiction: continuità stilistiche, tematiche e narrative

The dissertation examines the model of the detective and crime novel in contemporary Italian literature focusing on non-fiction novels, their style, and their market reasons and value. The main goal of the reasearch is to determine the existence of a so to speak detective way of writing that would be able to organize the narrative structure according to its fashion and regardless of the presence of the main criminal element. The study is then based on the analysis of multiple texts †" both fictional and non fictional †" published in Italy in the last twenty years and provides the reader with a preliminary history of the detective and crime fiction in Italy and its peculiarities. The wide range of writers and subjects taken into account allows to see the emergence of a pattern that links noir and detective novels to non-fiction novels and that is grounded in feature suchs as the individual research of truth, the lack of closure, a pessimistic view on reality.