SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION AND POPULAR CULTURE: JO NESBØ'S HARRY HOLE NOVELS

In: Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta: časopis za chumanističke i društvene nauke, Band 8, Heft 21

Abstract

Jo Nesbø is one of the most important and popular crimefiction writers of today, as well as a typical representative of thecontemporary literary genre known as Scandinavian crime fiction.Within the entire literary opus of this writer, the central positionis reserved for the series of novels in which detective Harry Hole isthe main character. Various segments and aspects of these novelsdemonstrate a strong connection and relation with popularculture, and they are identified and discussed in this article.However, before the mentioned identification and discussion,some facts are stated regarding the phenomena of Scandinaviancrime fiction, as a regionally determined literary genre whichemerged to the world literature scene in full power at the end ofthe 20th and the first decades of the 21st century, and its relation topopular culture.