Amérique du Nord 2015, LV1
How do you explain the success of crime fiction? Do you enjoy it? Explain why or why not.
Quel adverbe montre que la fiction policière rencontre un succès incontestable ?
Quelle expression traduit le fait que les détectives ont davantage recours à leur intelligence qu'à des outils technologiques ?
Quel adjectif montre que l'œuvre d'Agatha Christie est immense ?
Quel passage traduit l'aspect glauque de certaines fictions policières ?
Quel mot fait référence aux médecins légistes que l'on trouve dans les séries policières ?
Crime fiction has undoubtedly become a very successful form of entertainment over the last years, although it actually dates back to much longer.
Agatha Christie was probably the writer who started it all. Originally working as a nurse, her interest in crime stories grew bigger during her years working for the British army. That is how she gave birth to iconic detectives such as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The latter always succeed in solving what seems to be a very complex case. They are both famous for using their "little grey cells", in other words, their brains to do so.
Christie's plethoric work was known as the Golden Age of crime fiction.
Nowadays, we are flooded with crime TV shows such as NCIS in which specialized teams composed of scientists, forensics, criminologists, and even geneticists sometimes, work together in order to shed light on a specific case. Each major city has its own adaptation of NCIS with its own specificities.
But what is really interesting is the reason why people have developed a crave for this particular and somewhat gloomy literary / movie genre. Why would someone want to read or watch about people being slaughtered and why they were killed? On the one hand I do believe there is a certain attractivity to the obscene nature of crime. On the other hand, most crime fiction works focus not on the crime itself but on its motives and the different ways and clues which led the detectives to solving it.
The gloomier the better?