Galician Noir: Diego Ameixeiras, from Parody to Social Critique

Abstract

It is generally agreed that Galician crime fiction began in 1984, when Carlos G. Reigosa’s Crime en Compostela was published. Since then, different authors have explored the genre with varying success. One of the best-known writers of Galician crime fiction is Diego Ameixeiras, who published eleven novels between 2004 (Baixo mı´nimos) and 2018 (A crueldade de abril). This paper will focus on Ameixeiras’s works, in particular Baixo mı´nimos and A noite enriba (2015). The distance between their dates of publication will allow us to highlight through their differences in structure and style the clear evolution in Ameixeiras’s narrative production from parody to social critique.