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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion

by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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. 

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About the Author

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-90) was a prolific Swiss dramatist, novelist, and essayist. His Selected Writings, in three volumes, is also published by the University of Chicago Press. Joel Agee has translated numerous German authors into English.
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Foreword by Sven Birkerts

 

The Judge and His Hangman

 

Suspicion

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780226174440
Author:
Durrenmatt, Friedrich
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Translator:
Agee, Joel
Foreword by:
Birkerts, Sven
Foreword:
Birkerts, Sven
Author:
Birkerts, Sven
Author:
Agee, Joel
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
Subject:
Mystery-A to Z
Edition Description:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20061131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in
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