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Title: The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion
Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Translator: Joel Agee
Contributor: Joel Agee (Translated by), Sven Birkerts (Foreword by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780226174440
ISBN: 9780226174440
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Crime Thrillers & Mystery
Release Date: 11/01/2006
Description: 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. 


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 22mm
Item Length: 14mm
Item Width: 1mm
Item Weight: 312g
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Release Year: 2006

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