A valószínűség reménye

Csaba Horváth

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XVII. , Issue 1, 2022, p. 95-104, ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2022.17.1.95-104

Abstract:

The crime novel has always been linked to the idea of the knowability and discoverability of the world but at the same time, the incompatibility of the truth and law appeared already in classic crime fiction. During the 20th century the genre increasingly problematized the relationship between the ethics of truth and the logical aspects also became more and more questionable. László András’s novel. Though The Red Crown offers the reading of a historical novel it is firstly a political crime based on the history of the 40 years and the contemporary society that makes us aware that any form of justice can only be the survival of an empty narrative form. The detective in the book used to be a mathematician. His conjecture about probability, presented as a cataphora at the beginning of the plot, is related to the knowability of the world and even to the fundamental questions of existence. It shows that the logic is overwritten by reality just as the concept of good and evil is only a guess but no more it can reach the certainty of a proposition.

Keywords: Crime fiction theory, László András, The Red Crown, probability and guess

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