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Argentinian writer Ricardo Piglia has won important awards such as the Spanish "Literary Criticism Award", the "Romulo Gallegos International Novel Award" and the "Argentine Writers Association Highest Honor Award", and occupies an important position in the contemporary Argentine literary world and even the Spanish literary world. The novel "Artificial Respiration" was published in 1980. It is Piglia's most representative work and is known as one of the 10 most outstanding novels in contemporary Argentina. For more than 30 years, literary critics have conducted multi-dimensional interpretations of the novel, mainly focusing on historical perspectives, postmodern literature, and metafiction. After carefully studying previous research results, we tried to find a unique way to interpret "Artificial Respiration" from the perspective of postmodern detective novels. Through text analysis of this work, we explained the creative characteristics of Piglia's detective novels. We believe that "Artificial Respiration" subverts the traditional detective novel model in terms of mystery setting, images of detectives and criminals, and narrative structure. It is a work with the characteristics of postmodern detective novels. In addition, "Artificial Respiration" is also a literary vehicle for Piglia to display his creative concepts such as "two stories", "literary detective" and "detective reader", focusing on the unique charm of the author's detective novel creation.