Lawrence Brockya's Series Of Detective Novels

To study contemporary detective fiction,Lawrence Block is the representative writer can not be passed.He not only inheriting the tradition of hard-boiled detective fiction,but also blend the widely and deeply cultural connotations into the creation.The whole system involves a wide variety of forms and creative fusion of various genres.It is an important innovation for the development of detective fiction.At the same time to a certain extent,it points out the direction of the future detective fiction.In the past research,the main focus was on the series of the hard-boiled series about Matthew Scudder,but the other series like Bernie Rhodenbarr series is rarely involved.In this paper,the Bernie Rhodenbarr series is placed in the overall background of his detective fiction,analyze its connection with the hard-boiled series and its particularity.This paper points out that the cultural motive of the series is the complexity of American social culture in the 1970s.Through the analysis of characters and narrative patterns,tries to specify the "detective "image and narrative patterns of Bernie Rhodenbarr series have been different with the traditional "detective "image and narrative pattern.Through the above analysis hope to fully presented this series.Finally explains Block ’s understanding of detective fiction,thinking and innovation of detective images,exploring of the Integration of Literariness and Popular Literature.