james_davis_nicoll (
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2009-11-21 08:13 pm (UTC)
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There's something very Enlightenment about the classic whodunit
I think Jacques Barzun argued that
Zadig
(http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18972)
was the original (western) proto-detective story.
Cosma
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(Anonymous) 2009-11-21 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)I think Jacques Barzun argued that Zadig (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18972) was the original (western) proto-detective story.
Cosma