A REINVEN O DO DETETIVE EM TEMPOS PóS-UTóPICOS

This article examines the figure of the detective in contemporary Brazilian literature, more specifically, the caracters Mandrake and Espinosa. Corpus were selected as two novels: A grande arte, by Rubem Fonseca and Perseguido, by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, based on the term post-utopian, created by Haroldo de Campos to define our times.