Whodunit and Other Questions: Metaphysical Detective Stories in Post-War Fiction

HIs paper seeks to make two points: first, what the structural and philosophical presuppositions of myth and depth psychology were to Modernism (Mann, Joyce, Woolfe, etc.), the detective story is to Post-Modernism (Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Nabokov, etc.); secondly, if such is the case, we will have established a relationship between two levels of culture, kitsch and the avant-garde, often thought to be mutually exclusive.