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标题：Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio’s Literary Courtroom
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作者：Elena Past
期刊名称：Quaderni d'italianistica
印刷版ISSN：0226-8043
出版年度：2010
卷号：31
期号：2
页码：127-148
出版社：Canadian Society for Italian Studies
摘要：Gianrico Carofiglio’s novels featuring attorney-protagonist Guido Guerrieri have gained popularity in Italy and abroad since the first in the series emerged in 2002. Although often discussed alongside other popular crime fiction, Carofiglio’s work also has a wider resonance, participating in debates about justice, violence, and the law. This article proposes connections between the Guerrieri novels and several contemporary discussions of state violence—including essays by Jacques Derrida, Dominick La Capra, and Giorgio Agamben—that gravitate around Walter Benjamin’s essay, “Critique of Violence.” Carofiglio’s novels, like these essays, lead us to contemplate the question of what action is possible once law’s violence has been acknowledged.