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 a trap for the real killer-with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here Friedrich Durrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating sense of timing and suspense. Joel Agee's skilled translation effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as its chilling conclusion. One of Durrenmatt's most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.
A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Inspector Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself, but then the tables are turned, and Barlach finds himself helpless in the clutches of his prey...
Un autor monumental y esencia, injustamente olviado. Asómate a sus páginas, no te arrepentirás. Rosa Montero. Friedrich Dürrenmatt es un escritor insobornable. Óscar López. La gran novela negra europ
Quien quiera pensar en compañía del escritor Friedrich Dürrenmatt, enfrentarse con sus razonamientos que dan a menudo cabriolas en forma lacónica, lo puede intentar con este pequeño libro.
Der Staat hat die Geschafte der Unterwelt ubernommen, und der entlassene Biologe Doc macht mit "Der Mitmacher heit Doc: Er ist ein entlassener Biologe und arbeitet als Nekrodialytiker, als Leichenaufloser fur ein Mordsyndikat: die Leichen werden in die Kanalisation gespult. Unter den Leichen sind die Geliebte Docs, Docs Sohn, schlielich der Mordboss und der Polizeiprasident Cop: Der Staat hat inzwischen die Geschafte der Unterwelt ubernommen."( Spielplan - Schauspielfuhrer)
Truman
