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Luiz Alfredo Garcia Roza is a retired Brazilian professor. As an academic he wrote philosophy and psychology textbooks. After retiring from academia he became known as a novelist and shared the Prêmio Jabuti for Literature in 1997. He is known for his Detective fiction, in particular his Inspector Espinosa Mystery series. He had little knowledge of crime or police-work before he began writing.Some of his works have been translated into English.
His translated works include The Silence of the Rain (2003), December Heat (2004), Southwesterly Wind, A Window in Copacabana, Pursuit (2006), Blackout (2009) and Alone in the Crowd (2010).
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You had a long and distinguished academic career in psychology and
philosophy, but eight years ago decided to try something entirely new. What
inspired you to become a mystery writer? How has your training as a psychologist
helped in your crime writing?
I am attracted first of all, to the freedom that fictional narrative offers
compared to the rigid conceptual structure of the scientific discourse;
secondly, to the fact that mystery novels are the direct descendants of
mythological thought (and ancient Greek poetry), and bring to the center of the
narrative the most intense and fundamental questions of the human being: death
and sexuality. These are also the main concerns of psychoanalysis, one of the
two areas of my academic research.
Much in the same way that Raymond Chandler evoked the spirit and
eccentricities of Los Angeles in his books, Rio de Janeiro is an important
character in your mysteries. Why do you set the novels in Rio? What does it
offer you as a writer?
I was born in Rio de Janeiro and I’ve always lived there (more precisely,
in Copacabana). Rio is not only one of the most beautiful cities in the world,
but a city with a complex political structure and dramatic social-economic
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