posted on 2025-06-30, 05:11authored byLouise Salstad
Juan Anguera, aka Flanagan, is the autodiagetic narrator of a best-selling series of adolescent novels by Catalan writers Andreu Martin and Jaume Ribera. Critics sometimes refer to the series as a parody of the novela negra, or hard-boiled detective novel, especially, though not exclusively, that of Raymond Chandler, whose private-eye hero, Philip Marlowe, is Flanagan's chief role model. The books certainly fall within the genre of the detective novel for adolescents, and they are definitely funny. But are they parodies, and if so, of what kind?
History
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's Literature
ISSN
1551-5680
Volume
9
Issue
1
Publisher
La Trobe University
Section Title
Alice's Academy
Date Created
2008-12-15
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