Cryptographic Clues and Reader Navigation in Dan Brown Intellectual Thriller
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https://doi.org/10.55640/eijps-06-04-19Keywords:
Cryptogram, cipher, intellectual thrillerAbstract
The article examines how the cryptographic clue in Dan Brown’s novels structures plot movement, reading tempo and interpretation. The material includes «Digital Fortress», «Angels & Demons», «The Da Vinci Code», «The Lost Symbol», «Inferno», and «Origin». The analysis shows that in Brown’s prose the code is not only an object to be solved, but also a device that moves the reader across spaces, bodies of knowledge, and successive layers of secrecy.
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