Abstract:Kracauer, the essay examines German crime fiction dime novels from the interwar period, compares them to their American predecessors, and analyses their relationship to mobility and cultural transfer. The text argues that the spatial mobility of the fictional detective is only possible in a specific cultural environment to which the moving, but corporeally immobile reader has to be transferred imaginatively.
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