Les mots croisés de Détective, ou l’Œdipe sans complexe

For a few weeks, in the first issues of the the review Detective, there appeared crosswords in the form of handcuffs, criminal mask or weapons. What is the reason for this publication, and how can it be explained that it stops after 8 grids? To answer these questions, it is necessary to take up the...

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Main Author: Paul Aron
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Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2018-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/4933
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description For a few weeks, in the first issues of the the review Detective, there appeared crosswords in the form of handcuffs, criminal mask or weapons. What is the reason for this publication, and how can it be explained that it stops after 8 grids? To answer these questions, it is necessary to take up the history of this game, and to show its French and literary sources. The article traces the progressive elaboration of modern crosswords in the long history of the graphic enigma in the press. A « space of possibilities » emerges from there, which permits to understand the form of the grids of Detective and the reasons for their rapid disappearance.
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Les mots croisés de Détective, ou l’Œdipe sans complexe
Criminocorpus
Cross words
Puzzle
Riddle
Press and literature
title Les mots croisés de Détective, ou l’Œdipe sans complexe
title_full Les mots croisés de Détective, ou l’Œdipe sans complexe
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title_full_unstemmed Les mots croisés de Détective, ou l’Œdipe sans complexe
title_short Les mots croisés de Détective, ou l’Œdipe sans complexe
title_sort les mots croises de detective ou l oedipe sans complexe
topic Cross words
Puzzle
Riddle
Press and literature
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/4933
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