THE DREAMER AND THE INTERPRETER

Abstract

This essay is a reflection on the image and representation of mysteries in both the contemporary cinematographic and literary fiction, in which the character of the detective is often mixed with a paranoiac character, whose persecutory logic is prone to invent explanations for everything. When one does not believe any longer in the human capacity to objectively grasp the reality of things, how to distinguish the reasoning articulated by the detective, when he explains by which means he reached his conclusions, from the explanatory reasoning of the paranoiac? The prosaism of everyday's life in big cities, in which violence itself is part of peoples' routines, does not favor the climate of mystery and tends to disqualify the enigmas. However, the constant threat of crime, hovering like a phantom evoked even by the vigilance apparatus itself inhabits the imagination of every citizen, thus favoring the revival of mystery fiction.