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and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present

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Crime in Literature subject-philosophy and the double aftermath ofCrime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works. It is not a work of literary criticism, but a book written by a sociologist who reads fiction sociologically. Vincenzo Ruggieros wide ranging study takes in several authors, including Hugo, Dostoevsky, Camus, Cervantes, Mann and Zola, and addresses themes such as organized crime, the links between crime and drugs, political and