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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Kommissär Matthäi
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Published by Diogenes as Das Versprechen
Original Title: Das Versprechen

A suspenseful tale of a police inspector's unremitting search for a psychopathic killer his superiors claim does not exist. But more than a novel of crime and detection, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's deeply moving drama is the eloquent account of a decent man's gradual decay. With grim irony, the master storyteller shows how a dedicated law-enforcer's obsession for truth and justice can lead him to bait a trap as morally offensive as the evil strategy used by the maniacal murderer he relentlessly pursues.

Crime Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Compulsory Reading, Bestseller
160 pages
1996

978-3-257-22812-0
Friedrich
Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was born in Konolfingen near Berne as the son of a protestant minister. He studied philosophy, German literature and history of art in Berne and Zurich and worked as a playwright, novelist, essayist and painter in Neuchâtel, where he lived with his family.

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Pressezitate

Anderson
Wall Street Journal, New York
»Perhaps Dürrenmatt's best work.«
Spectator, London
»A stark essay in crime and pursuit, as terse and assured in construction as the best of Simenon.«
Newsweek
»A shocker done on the level of high art. Every word falls into place like a footstep of approaching doom.«
Malcolm Forbes
The National Newspaper, Abu Dhabi

»Dürrenmatt reinterpreted the detective novel and pushed it in a new, postmodern direction, passing the baton to the likes of Umberto Eco and Paul Auster.«

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