Iğdır Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

Abstract

The transformation of literature into one of the mass communication channels as an outcome of the modern process in the XXI. century paves the way for the birth of mass literature, which is an extremely different type of literature. Detective prose occupies an important place among the genres of mass literature, which is known as “trivial”, “stereotyped (formula)”, “Paraliterature”, “popular literature” in Western literary science. Detective literature, whose ancestor in world literature is the American writer E. A. Poe, gained its most lively momentum in the Russian literature in the XX. century. Russian detective works, whose writers were generally men, became widespread among women writers as of the second half of the era. Aleksandra Marinina, who quickly made a name for herself with the detective heroines she brought to the Russian modern literature, is largely distinguished from the writers of the period by not only entertaining the Russian reader with her adventure-themed works, but also making them think. As a matter of fact, in this study, Aleksandra Marinina’s long story, who was deemed worthy of major Russian literature awards and whose works are at the top of the best-seller lists, The Name of the Victim: No One, which sheds light on XXI. century Russian society through a tragic window, will be examined. In this work, in which modernization has turned into a problem, Marinina’s pursuit of criminals at the borders of society will be revealed by using the detective prose genre from mass literature, and the elements of crime, criminal and victim will be analyzed with an analytical interpretation from different perspectives.