Watching the Detectives: Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and Kevin Brooks' "Martyn Pig"

Autor/in	Gilbert, Ruth
Titel	Watching the Detectives: Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and Kevin Brooks' "Martyn Pig"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 36 (2005) 3, S.241-253 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-005-5972-1
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Childrens Literature; Authors; Novels + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Author; Autor; Autorin; Novel; Roman
Abstract	Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was the crossover publishing sensation of 2003. It has been the subject of widespread critical and commercial acclaim and has won prestigious UK prizes including the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize. It is still enjoying considerable commercial success in the best-seller lists. This essay reads Haddon's novel alongside Kevin Brooks' "Martyn Pig" (2002), winner of the Branford Boase Award and short-listed for the Clip Carnegie Medal. Brooks' hero, Martyn has a troubled teenage life, and like Haddon's Christopher, he turns to detective fiction in order to shape his own experience. The essay develops the idea that "every life is in search of a narrative" (Richard Kearney, "On Stories," p. 4) and argues that detective fiction, in particular, provides structures that allow Brooks' and Haddon's first person narrators to make sense of their confusing worlds. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10