The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
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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 |
| Title | The Inspector Barlach Mysteries |
| Author | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| Series | Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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