Diálogos entre os romances policiais Ventos de quaresma e O caso Morel

Abstract

The present research brings a proposition of dialog between two contemporary police novels, Ventos de Quaresma, by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, and O caso Morel, by Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca. For this, it discusses the theories of the Comparative Literature and the Detective Fiction Genre, as well as some information about the plots and the writer of each book. In sequence, it presents the comparative analysis and in its last chapter the final considerations. The two aspects analyzed and defended as similar are the detective characters construction Mario Conde (Ventos de Quaresma) and Vilela (O caso Morel) and the context that in both literary works is marked by authoritarian regimes, which interfere directly both in the configuration and in the broadcasting of these narratives and which may be revisited by means of these books. The main authors used as theoretical reference are: Carvalhal (2006), Coutinho (1996; 2010; 2016), Jozef (2006), Massi (2011), Reimão (1983), Todorov (2003) e Candido (2006; 2009).