The Inspector Barlach Mysteries by Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Inspector Barlach Mysteries by Friedrich Durrenmatt

This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 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 Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. And in Suspicion, Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself. The result is two thrillers that bring existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt is one of the essential twentieth-century writers and intellectuals in the German language.

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ISBN 13	9780226174440
ISBN 10	0226174441
Titel	The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
Autor	Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-11-01
Seitenanzahl	208
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