Friedrich D?renmatt

The full German text of D rrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Author: Friedrich D?renmattISBN-10: 0415051401ISBN-13: 9780415051408Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1961Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.51d

These translations of Friedrich D?renmatt's plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich D?renmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the Cold War,...

Friedrich D rrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his essays on literary forms...

In Friedrich D?renmatt's experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly...

This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich D rrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector...

Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays...