RHETORIC OF NARCO-CRIMINAL FICTION. DON WINSLOW AND THE WAR ON DRUGS

Rhetoric of Narco-Criminal Fiction deals with narrative fiction, the relationship between fiction and reality, between literature and journalism, possible worlds, the crime genre and offers a study of the group of works on drug trafficking by Don Winslow, one of the most influential authors of the genre in recent decades. From a modern view of the theory of possible worlds, with a novel consideration of syntax in the construction of fiction, it examines the creation of the literary world of these works and the resources and strategies employed by Don Winslow, who is shown in his plenitude with a saga that in this book is explained as unequalled in tension, rhythm and writing, full of references and classic and modern resources and a world populated by exceptional characters, among which the female ones stand out, full of greatness and empowerment due to their courage and intelligence. In short, a theoretical reflection resulting from the critical analysis that reveals all the technical and fictional architecture of this series that addresses the author's particular vision of the failure of a War on Drugs that has lasted more than half a century.