Mario vargas llosa y sus detectives frustrados

Abstract

After presenting his most relevant bio-bibliographic antecedents, his view of society and his concept of literature, Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Who killed Palomino Molero?(1986), written with a detective fiction format, is analysed in detail pointing at characteristic features that detectives have, at their way of thinking, at their psychological profile and at their method of investigation; the social and cultural motives for crime and a criticism towards Peruvian society are also analysed. Special attention is paid to highlighting the inter and intrageneric hybridation -the mixture of different literary genres and detective subgenres- that appear in this novel.