Die Detektive werden alt. Zum konzeptuellen „Selbstmordversuch“ des Krimis in Bernhard Schlinks Selbs Mord (2011)

The novel Selbs Mord ends up the series of Bernhard Schlink’s detective stories about the private detective Gerhard Selb. Schlink’s last detective novel, unlike the earlier ones, did not meet a warm reception among the critics. Notwithstanding, the reviewers did not take into account a one important feature of the text – both with respect to the content and the structure. Selbs Mord is namely an attempt of a deconstruction, a farewell with the detective novel as a genre. A real suicide of the genre.