{"product_id":"groundless-noir-ontology-and-latin-american-crime-fiction-hardback-9781684485918","title":"Groundless Noir; Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction (Hardback) 9781684485918","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGroundless Noir\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOntology and Latin American Crime Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErik Larson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684485918\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e206 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.427 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGroundless Noir\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative and exhaustive analysis of Latin American crime fiction. In an eloquent conversation with Heidegger, Larson takes the pulse of the genre's multiple re-appropriations in the region. This lucid monograph reveals how the absence of an ontological ground—once a radical betrayal of the genre's horizon of expectations that subverted the Anglo-American canon—has gradually and paradoxically established a new precarious, yet subsisting foundation.\" - Fabricio Tocco, author of \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Secrets: A History of the Latin American Political Thriller\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"According to Erik Larson, the contemporary Latin American novela negra features a detective who embraces the radical instability of the hard-boiled world as a new form of normality, skillfully navigating this ungrounded reality. In his book, Larson demonstrates the same mastery of this genre as the detective he describes.\" - Gerardo Pignatiello, author of \u003ci\u003eEl policial campero argentino (1845-2010)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis philosophical study of Latin American noir fiction poses the question, What if precarity and uncertainty aren't just themes of the genre but ways of being in the world? Emerging from a region immersed in violence, trauma, and political instability, the \u003ci\u003enovela negra\u003c\/i\u003e reveals not just disillusionment but a desire to adapt to, even dwell within, chaos. In the hands of writers like Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Bolaño, and Patricia Melo, savvy detectives and antiheroes navigate a world in which meaning constantly shifts and certainty is elusive. Blending literary analysis with philosophical inquiry, Larson draws on Heideggerian ontology to demonstrate how the noir novel becomes a mode of existence—grounded in its very groundlessness. Rather than offering resolution, these novels embody a paradoxical desire: to engage crisis while also adapting to it. In doing so, they become both ideological and pedagogical—existential fiction for an uncertain world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Translations  ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Worlds, Grounds, Coping, and Caring: Noir Attunement in the Latin American Novela Negra  1\u003cbr\u003e1 World Literature, Postmodernism, and Tough-Call Decision-Making in \u003ci\u003eEn busca de Klingsor\u003c\/i\u003e  25\u003cbr\u003e2 Intertextual Afterimages: The Novela Negra Within a Global, Noir Mediascape  42\u003cbr\u003e3 Virtual Realities, Real Phenomenologies: Being at Odds Through Ricardo Piglia  71\u003cbr\u003e4 Lessons in Noir Economics: Piglia, Piñeiro, and Melo  89\u003cbr\u003e5 Uncanny Inheritance, Thrownness, and the Weight of Legacy in Padilla's \u003ci\u003eAmphitryon\u003c\/i\u003e  116\u003cbr\u003e6 Of Sleuths and States: Literary Crime Fiction as Sovereign Act  132\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  149\u003cbr\u003eNotes  151\u003cbr\u003eBibliography  173\u003cbr\u003eIndex  183\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633828557080,"sku":"9781684485918","price":88.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/groundless-noir-ontology-and-latin-american-crime-fiction-hardback-9781684485918","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}