Groundless Noir Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

"Groundless Noir offers an innovative and exhaustive analysis of Latin American crime fiction. In an eloquent conversation with Heidegger, Larson takes the pulse of the genre's multiple re-appropriations in the region. This lucid monograph reveals how the absence of an ontological ground-once a radical betrayal of the genre's horizon of expectations that subverted the Anglo-American canon-has gradually and paradoxically established a new precarious, yet subsisting foundation." - Fabricio Tocco, author of Precarious Secrets: A History of the Latin American Political Thriller

"According to Erik Larson, the contemporary Latin American novela negra features a detective who embraces the radical instability of the hard-boiled world as a new form of normality, skillfully navigating this ungrounded reality. In his book, Larson demonstrates the same mastery of this genre as the detective he describes." - Gerardo Pignatiello, author of El policial campero argentino (1845-2010)