20.500.12556/DKUM-40671 ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH AND LITERARY CHARACTERS IN HIS DETECTIVE FICTION ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH IN LITERARNI LIKI V NJEGOVIH DETEKTIVSKIH ROMANIH Alexander McCall Smith's novels are gaining more and more readers in Slovenia as well as around the world; the most popular of his works is The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which currently consists of 13 books. For this thesis I wanted to find out what is the main appeal of the series and what are the reasons behind its popularity. Although the two most important characters in the novels are detectives and the series revolves around different types of crime and their solving, the novels are not typical detective fiction. They do not feature any murder cases, and the two detectives deal only with everyday problems, such as theft, fraud, adultery, and searching for missing people. Mma Ramotswe, the protagonist, is a private detective who solves crime with humour, intuition, and without any detective knowledge. The novels take place in the Southern African country of Botswana; therefore, the works feature appealing descriptions of Botswana’s scenery and customs but do not deal extensively with Botswana’s biggest problem: AIDS. Therefore they do not provide the reader with a completely accurate description of the country. The literary characters are well-made; an important characteristic of this series is that characters are shown as good people – even Mma Ramotswe, when solving cases, mostly relies on human kindness and consciousness that the right thing has to be done. The author does not show the characters only as good people, but as human beings with bad and good sides. Romani Alexandra McCall Smitha pridobivajo vse več bralcev, tako v Sloveniji kot drugod po svetu; najznamenitejša je njegova zbirka Prva damska detektivska agencija, ki trenutno obsega 13 delov. S tem diplomskim delom sem želela ugotoviti, kaj je največja privlačnost te zbirke in kateri so razlogi za njeno priljubljenost. Čeprav sta dva najpomembnejša lika v tej zbirki detektivki in se serija vrti okrog različnih vrst kriminala in reševanja primerov, romani ne sodijo med tipične kriminalke. Ne vsebujejo nobenih primerov umora; detektivki se ukvarjata samo z vsakdanjimi problemi, kot so kraje, prevare, prešuštva in iskanje pogrešanih oseb. Ma Ramotswe, glavna oseba serije, je zasebna detektivka, ki primere rešuje s humorjem, intuicijo ter predvsem brez detektivskega znanja. Romani se dogajajo v južnoafriški državi Bocvani, zato dela vsebujejo privlačne opise bocvanske pokrajine in njenih običajev. Vendar se knjige ne ukvarjajo poglobljeno z največjim problemom Bocvane, z aidsom. Zbirka torej bralcu ne podaja celostne podobe Bocvane. Literarni liki so dobro izdelani. Pomembna lastnost te zbirke je, da so literarni liki predstavljeni kot dobri ljudje – Ma Ramotswe se pri reševanju primerov zanaša na človeško dobroto in zavest, da je treba narediti pravo stvar. Avtor likov ne predstavlja kot izključno dobre ljudi, temveč kot ljudi s slabimi in dobrimi stranmi. Alexander McCall Smith Botswana detective fiction Mma Ramotswe The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith Bocvana detektivski romani Ma Ramotswe Prva damska detektivska agencija true true false [N. Pavlinič] Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Diplomsko delo 2013-06-06 17:51:20 2021-02-01 10:02:51 2022-05-12 23:51:58 2021-04-24 03:14:17 2013 0 Maribor 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 821.111(043.2) 19965704 URN:SI:UM:DK:8OUCTZTE UNI_Pavlinic_Nika_2013.pdf UNI_Pavlinic_Nika_2013.pdf 1 83C082383AF8E8A0332AF58BBF2F4EA8 db6763e6f73ac636955afa7aeb7f20622990fac8912dd885ec21b6d53b623803 00ff238e-7c0a-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/0ed77d0e-18cc-4bd8-a221-b45806cbdf58 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=55753 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0