whodunit

Croatian translation: krimić

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00:54 Oct 12, 2020

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English term or phrase: whodunit

Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

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A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. Alyssa Mackay
Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? Telegraph
While Agatha Christie is still the first to spring to mind when thinking of the ultimate ‘whodunit’ books, detectives, murderers and victims have changed a lot since then; the breadth of crime, thrillers, detective and psychological novels out there, keeping us on tenterhooks until the last few pages, is vast. WH Smith

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Croatian translation:krimić

Definition:
kriminalistička književnost - žanr prozne književnosti u čijim je djelima (romani, pripovijetke, novele) u središtu pripovjedačkog i čitateljskog zanimanja neka kriminalna radnja ili zločin te njegovo postupno napeto otkrivanje ili rasvjetljavanje, najčešće s osloncem na psihološke ili društvene uzroke. Glavni akter uglavnom je detektiv ili istražitalj (na primjer forenzičar) koji razrješava kriminalni događaj. Mnogobrojna ostvarenja kriminalističke književnosti, takozvani krimići, nastaju po shematskom uzorku i bez većih književnih ambicija te se kao takvi smještaju u širi korpus zabavne ili trivijalne književnosti.

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Definition from Proleksis:
kriminalistička književnost - žanr prozne književnosti u čijim je djelima (romani, pripovijetke, novele) u središtu pripovjedačkog i čitateljskog zanimanja neka kriminalna radnja ili zločin te njegovo postupno napeto otkrivanje ili rasvjetljavanje, najčešće s osloncem na psihološke ili društvene uzroke. Glavni akter uglavnom je detektiv ili istražitalj (na primjer forenzičar) koji razrješava kriminalni događaj. Mnogobrojna ostvarenja kriminalističke književnosti, takozvani krimići, nastaju po shematskom uzorku i bez većih književnih ambicija te se kao takvi smještaju u širi korpus zabavne ili trivijalne književnosti.

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Sintagma „hrvatski krimić“ nije oksimoron. Ona ne zvuči apsurdno, fantastično ili neprirodno poput značenjske sprege između riječi u izrazima kao što bi bili, recimo, hrvatski western ili hrvatski humor, a donedavno i hrvatski film. - ARTOS

Elio Verbanac
Croatia
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Serbo-Croat
PRO pts in category: 8

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