Brief essay on Domestic Noir. About a novel by Emma Flint

Abstract

This essay is justified by the insufficiency of current narrative to classify domestic noir as a literary subgenre. Its objective is precisely to establish the connection between domestic noir and crime novels. Methodologically, philosophical hermeneutics and the single case method were used. The book selected was Muertes pequeñas, by the English author Emma Flint. The results show, on the one hand, the agreement between the way of being of the agent of the actions and the quality of the actions, and, on the other, the crudeness of the story as a primary condition of the acceptability of the contents. For this reason, the intensity with which Muertes pequeñas presents some characters that corroborate its verisimilitude stands out. These give the story a domestic air, tinged with suspicion, “not everything is as it seems” and crime. In this way, domestic noir would be part of post-postmodernism, a certain logic emerging from a different and more intense mode of literary production/consumption.