Inspector Barlach Mysteries The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion

Name: Inspector Barlach Mysteries The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion
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ISBN: 9780226174440

ISBN-10: 0226174441

ISBN-13: 9780226174440

Edition: 2006

Authors: Friedrich Dï¿½rrenmatt, Joel Agee, Sven Birkerts

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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.…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Sven Birkerts teaches at Mount Holyoke College and the Bennington Writing Seminary. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.



Foreword



The Judge and His Hangman