Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 4:17:40 GMT
The date of 20 April 1841 usually marks the birth of the detective literary genre . It is the day Edgar Allan Poe 's famous story The Murders in the Rue Morgue was published in Graham's Magazine , in Philadelphia. Stories of this kind, however, seem to have started earlier. Poe's, therefore, was not the first detective story, since the story Mordet på Maskinbygger Roolfsen (The Murder of the Machinist Roolfsen) by the Norwegian writer Mauritz Hansen came out two years earlier, in 1839. Mauritz Hansen Mauritz HansenMaurits Christopher Hansen was born on 5 July 1794 and died on 16 March 1842 in Kongsberg. He was also a writer of school books, a teacher and a school director.
He started the first literary production of independent Norway, anticipating national-romantic ideas. He is considered the founder of the Norwegian novel , the writer of the first Norwegian bucolic tale and the world's first detective novel . He is best known for his short stories, especially Luren , many of which are detective stories. Hansen, who was influenced by Special Data Walter Scott, would in turn inspire Henrik Ibsen, who learned his technique of retrospective narration from Hansen's texts. Plot of the novel “Mordet på Maskinbygger Roolfsen” Mordet på Maskinbygger RoolfsenThe train driver Roolfsen, a good boy who works in a silver mine, disappears without a trace from the room of a tavern in Bussedalen, one late autumn evening. In the distance you can hear barking and gunshots.
Suspicion of a murder begins to circulate in the city. The magistrate, councilor Johannes Barth, immediately begins to investigate. Gossip pointed to innkeeper Herman Haitler and his family as prime suspects. Kongsberg's top official thinks Barth can't arrest the culprits quickly enough. Because of this, a conflict arises between the two. The net slowly closes in on the culprit, who is eventually discovered, through what is defined as a stroke of literary genius. A pharmacist is brought in as a forensic chemist and the matter becomes clear. In Hansen's detective stories the crime plays a central role in the action. Mordet på maskinbygger Roolfsen , for its details on the environment and society of the time, is also a clear and early example of a realistic novel.
He started the first literary production of independent Norway, anticipating national-romantic ideas. He is considered the founder of the Norwegian novel , the writer of the first Norwegian bucolic tale and the world's first detective novel . He is best known for his short stories, especially Luren , many of which are detective stories. Hansen, who was influenced by Special Data Walter Scott, would in turn inspire Henrik Ibsen, who learned his technique of retrospective narration from Hansen's texts. Plot of the novel “Mordet på Maskinbygger Roolfsen” Mordet på Maskinbygger RoolfsenThe train driver Roolfsen, a good boy who works in a silver mine, disappears without a trace from the room of a tavern in Bussedalen, one late autumn evening. In the distance you can hear barking and gunshots.
Suspicion of a murder begins to circulate in the city. The magistrate, councilor Johannes Barth, immediately begins to investigate. Gossip pointed to innkeeper Herman Haitler and his family as prime suspects. Kongsberg's top official thinks Barth can't arrest the culprits quickly enough. Because of this, a conflict arises between the two. The net slowly closes in on the culprit, who is eventually discovered, through what is defined as a stroke of literary genius. A pharmacist is brought in as a forensic chemist and the matter becomes clear. In Hansen's detective stories the crime plays a central role in the action. Mordet på maskinbygger Roolfsen , for its details on the environment and society of the time, is also a clear and early example of a realistic novel.