Fiction and trafficking in our literary change of century. Generic complexity of "El Rufián Moldavo", by Edgardo Cozarinsky

Abstract

Between the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century, Argentine literature began to produce a series of fictions that took up the imagery of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation, both in the historical novel and the detective novel. In this article we delimit the generic field of trafficking fictions. To do this, we use a classic and formalist conceptual apparatus. We read with this toolbox the novel El rufián moldavo (2004), by Edgardo Cozarinsky, as an opportune moment in the consolidation of trafficking novels, since its generic complexity allows us to account for the characterization of said kind of fictions.