Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Crime as a critical instrument -- The "stories" of the corpus delicti -- From transgression to crime. The subjects of the liberal state : stories of education and marriage -- The patricians and their autobiographical stories of education -- The dandies and their marriage stories -- Physics exam stories : insanity, simulation, and crime at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires -- The frontier of crime. Transmutation operation stories -- The crime of the artist : portrait stories -- Coda -- The moreiras. Argentine stories -- The history of a best-seller : from anarchism to Peronism. A literary genealogy "in crime" by way of the story of the submission of the first manuscript to the master -- Women who kill. Stories of truth and stories of Jews. Stories of truth -- Stories of Jews -- Conclusion. The crime story of the very much read.
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