Abstract

Ever since Michael Holquist suggested that what the “presuppositions of myth and depth psychology were to Modernism … the detective story is to Post-Modernism” (133, critics have recognized the “metaphysical detective,” or “anti-detective,” as a significant figure in postmodern fiction. What is the metaphysical detective, and what is the importance of that figure to postmodernism?

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