The figure of Pepe Carvalho in the novels La Rosa de Alejandría (The Alexandrian rose), Roldán ni vivo ni muerto (Roldán, neither alive nor dead) and El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Prihajajoče delo govori o liku literarnega detektiva Pepeta Carvalha v treh izbranih romanih Manuela Vázqueza Montalbána iz literarne serije Carvalho: La Rosa de Alejandría, Roldán, ni vivo ni muerto in El hombre de mi vida. Najprej bo govora o kriminalnem romanu nasploh, njegovem izvoru, glavnih značilnostih ter o razvoju detektiva kot literarnega lika skozi čas. Temu sledi opis značilnosti španskega kriminalnega romana in razvoj le-tega skozi tri različna zgodovinska obdobja: od začetka dvajsetega stoletja do začetka Španske državljanske vojne, v povojnem obdobju in obdobju frankizma ter v obdobju po Frankovi smrti od leta 1975 do današnjih dni. Predstavljena je problematika enotnega poimenovanja literarnega žanra v Španiji ter najbolj znana dela in njihovi avtorji. Temu sledi predstavitev življenja in dela Manuela Vázqueza Montalbána, poseben poudarek pa je na literarni seriji Carvalho. V drugem delu naloge sledi analiza treh značilnosti literarnega junaka, s katero se poskuša potrditi tri hipoteze: o popularnosti junaka, o njegovem humanem značaju in o njegovi vpetosti v urbano okolje.The following work will talk about the figure of literary detective Pepe Carvalho in three selected novels by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán from the Carvalho literary series: La Rosa de Alejandría, Roldán, ni vivo ni muerto and El hombre de mi vida. The first part will present the crime novel in general, its origin, its main characteristics and the development of the detective as a literary character over time. This will be followed by a description of the characteristics of the Spanish crime novel and its development over three different historical periods: from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the Spanish Civil Warin the post-war period and the period of Francoismand in the period after Franco’s death in 1975 to the present day. The problems of uniform naming of the literary genre in Spain and the most famous works and their authors will be presented. This will be followed by an introduction to the life and work of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, with particular emphasis on the Carvalho series. The second part of the thesis will be followed by an analysis of the three characteristics of the literary hero, which will try to confirm three hypotheses: the popularity of the hero, his humane character and his involvement in the urban environment