Altos y bajos fondos porteños and “El crimen de la mosca azul”. Science, Pseudoscience and Occultism in Late Stories of Early Detective Fiction in Argentina
Between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, the scientific culture of the period intersected with ideas coming from pseudosciences and spiritisms –then at the height of their popularity– to shape an imaginary. This imaginary was mainly expressed...
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I28-R145-16022_oai2025-11-17 Guevara, Martina Vilariño, Andrea 2024-12-11 Between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, the scientific culture of the period intersected with ideas coming from pseudosciences and spiritisms –then at the height of their popularity– to shape an imaginary. This imaginary was mainly expressed through the so-called scientific fantasy (Gasparini, 2012; Quereilhac, 2016) and permeated some of the productions of the early detective fiction, especially Eduardo Holmberg´s stories, which were built on the hybridization between both genres. This paper examines a number of early twentieth-century stories that show both continuities with and departures from this tradition. Specifically, we will focus on some of the stories included in the saga Altos y bajos fondos porteños (1911-1912), by Pablo Daronel, and on “El crimen de la mosca azul”, by Enrique R. Lavalle. These fictions rework topics and motifs of scientific fantasy and, while expanding themes and promoting different narrative formulas for the genre, they distance themselves from their nineteenth-century predecessors by including parodic elements and breaches on plausibility. Entre las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y las primeras del XX, se consolida un imaginario en el que convergen la cultura científica del período y las ideas provenientes de las pseudociencias y los espiritismos, en auge en ese momento. Este imaginario se expresó especialmente a través de la denominada fantasía científica (Gasparini, 2012; Quereilhac, 2016) y permeó algunas de las producciones del policial temprano, en especial, los relatos de Eduardo Holmberg, construidos a partir de la hibridación entre ambos géneros. En este trabajo, nos proponemos analizar una serie de narraciones que establecen continuidades y rupturas con esta tradición al inicio del siglo XX. Nos referimos a algunos de los cuentos de la saga Altos y bajos fondos porteños (1911-1912), de Pablo Daronel, y “El crimen de la mosca azul”, de Enrique R. Lavalle. Dichas ficciones reelaboran tópicos y motivos de la fantasía científica y, a la vez que amplían temas y propician otras fórmulas narrativas para el género, se distancian de sus antecesores decimonónicos, mediante la inclusión de elementos paródicos y rupturas del verosímil. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/filologia/article/view/16022 10.34096/filologia.n56.16022 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/filologia/article/view/16022/13710 Derechos de autor 2024 Martina Guevara, Andrea Vilariño Filología; Vol. 2 No. 56 (2024) Filología; Vol. 2 Núm. 56 (2024) 2422-6009 0071-495X Argentinian detective fiction turn of the twentieth century science pseudoscience occultism literatura policial argentina entresiglos (XIX-XX) ciencia pseudociencia ocultismo Altos y bajos fondos porteños and “El crimen de la mosca azul”. Science, Pseudoscience and Occultism in Late Stories of Early Detective Fiction in Argentina Altos y bajos fondos porteños y “El crimen de la mosca azul”. Ciencia, pseudociencias y ocultismo en relatos tardíos del policial argentino temprano info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=filologia&d=16022_oai |
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Between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, the scientific culture of the period intersected with ideas coming from pseudosciences and spiritisms –then at the height of their popularity– to shape an imaginary. This imaginary was mainly expressed through the so-called scientific fantasy (Gasparini, 2012; Quereilhac, 2016) and permeated some of the productions of the early detective fiction, especially Eduardo Holmberg´s stories, which were built on the hybridization between both genres. This paper examines a number of early twentieth-century stories that show both continuities with and departures from this tradition. Specifically, we will focus on some of the stories included in the saga Altos y bajos fondos porteños (1911-1912), by Pablo Daronel, and on “El crimen de la mosca azul”, by Enrique R. Lavalle. These fictions rework topics and motifs of scientific fantasy and, while expanding themes and promoting different narrative formulas for the genre, they distance themselves from their nineteenth-century predecessors by including parodic elements and breaches on plausibility. |
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Altos y bajos fondos porteños and “El crimen de la mosca azul”. Science, Pseudoscience and Occultism in Late Stories of Early Detective Fiction in Argentina |
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Altos y bajos fondos porteños and “El crimen de la mosca azul”. Science, Pseudoscience and Occultism in Late Stories of Early Detective Fiction in Argentina |
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altos y bajos fondos porteños and “el crimen de la mosca azul”. science, pseudoscience and occultism in late stories of early detective fiction in argentina |
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