Mysteries and conspiracies detective stories, spy novels and the making of modern societies

Through an exploration of the work of the great masters of detective stories and spy novels - G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Le Carré and Graham Greene among others - Boltanski shows that these works of fiction and imagination tell us something fundamental about the nature of modern socie...

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Autor principal: Boltanski, Luc (Autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
French
Publicado: Cambridge, UK Polity Press [2014]
Edición:English edition.
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