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How to investigate books like you've never read them before

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You've now understood it : As in real life, you can't trust anyone within fiction-and, above all, you can't trust any narrator. The cases my honorable colleague just explained here are far from being isolated. To show you that writers from Perfidious Albion are not the only ones who, deliberately or accidentally, hide the truth, let's take an example closer to you, geographically and historically speaking : Top of the Lake, Jane Campion's latest TV series. This police thriller was produced on Australian, English and American budget, and the second season, released on 2017, takes place here in Sydney. I want to talk to you about the 2013 case, main plot of the First season of the show. We follow the investigations led by detective Robin Griffin, a police inspector recently returned from Sydney, in Laketop, her home town, small city lost in New Zealand mountains. A pregnant twelve-year-old girl, Tui Mitcham, is found half-drowned in the lake, and then, gone missing. I won't get into details because I don't wan't to spoil completely the pleasure for those who haven't watched it yet, but I would like to point out how obviously unsatisfying the solution seems. One of the main avenues of the investigation is discovering who's the father of Tui's unborn child, presumably the result of rape. Suspicion quickly falls on Tui's father, Matt, a local mafia godfather who runs the area with expeditious and violent methods. In the final episode, Al Parker, detective sergeant of the city, declares that « a doublecrossed DNA test » confirmed that Matt is indeed the father of the baby Tui had just given birth to. Can we really believe that ? There's no doubt that Matt's character has everything to be the ideal culprit-both from an internal and an external perspective. In the eyes of the local community, he's a well-known offender ; in addition, even if the matter is never directly adressed in the dialogues,

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hal-01956660 , version 1 (16-12-2018)

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Pierre Bayard, Caroline Julliot. How to investigate books like you've never read them before. New South Wales State Library conference, Jun 2018, Sydney, Australia. ⟨hal-01956660⟩
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