Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Böcker

När en polisinspektor från Bern hittas skjuten vid vägkanten ute på landsbygden ger sig kommissarie Bärlach och hans assistent Tschanz ut för att hitta mördaren. Kommissarien är dödssjuk och har inte lång tid kvar. Snart upptäcker de att offret ha...

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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 l...

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Zentrale Figur des Kriminalromans ist der alte, kranke Kommissar Bärlach,der in seiner Jugend eine Wette mit dem Verbrecher Gastmann abschloss.Während Bärlach meinte, dass die menschliche Unvollkommenheit, die Tatsache,dass wir di...

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Weil sein Auto eine Panne hat, gerät Alfredo Traps in eine Villa, in der vier ältere Herren ein Gerichtsspiel abhalten, das ihnen - ehemaligen Richtern, Staatsanwälten und Verteidigern - zum Zeitvertreib dient. Traps übernimmt die Rolle des Angekl...

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Es geschah am hellichten Tag ...Eigentlich sollte sich Kommissar Matthai,der auf der Höhe seiner Karriere angelangt ist, zum Flug nach Jordanienfertignachen, um dort ein ehrenvolles Amt zu übernehmen. Da erreicht ihnein Anruf aus Mä...

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När en polisinspektor från Bern hittas skjuten vid vägkanten ute på landsbygden ger sig kommissarie Bärlach och hans assistent Tschanz ut för att hitta mördaren. Kommissarien är dödssjuk och har inte lång tid kvar. Snart upptäcker de att offret ha...

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Drei Erzählungen, darunter die berühmte 'Panne': Weil sein Auto eine Panne hat, gerät Alfredo Traps in eine Villa, in der vier ältere Herren ein Gerichtsspiel abhalten, das ihnen - ehemaligen Richtern, Staatsanwälten und V...

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Wer mit dem Visionär und Weltautor Friedrich Dürrenmatt denken und sich mit seinen oft Kapriolen schlagenden Gedankengängen in geraffter Form auseinandersetzen möchte, der kann mit diesem kleinen Band beginnen. Ein Begleiter der besonderen Art, kr...

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Der Richter und sein Henker Der Verdacht

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In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity th...

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (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, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presenc...

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (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, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presenc...

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This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and oth...

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In Friedrich Durrenmatt'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 document...

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In Friedrich Drrenmatt'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. ...

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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 l...

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This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and oth...

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Drrenmatt (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, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence...

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Drrenmatt (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, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence...

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Drrenmatt (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, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence...

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The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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The scene is a madhouse and the focus is on three inmates who are nuclear physicists. One thinks he is Newton and another, Einstein. The third has visitations from Solomon. They appear to be nice, likeable lunatics, but nothing is as simple as it ...

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Friedrich Durrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. In this ALTA National Transla...

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The Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe's foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world's greatest physicist, Johann Wilhelm Moebius, is in a ...

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Friedrich Durrenmatt 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 short fiction, ...

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Friedrich Durrenmatt 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 fiction...

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The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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