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Häftad, Svenska, 2025
207 kr
"Denna urspännande, ultramelankoliska och nu lyckligtvis återutgivna minor classic vars svårförglömliga huvudperson är en briljant kommissarie som förspiller livet i sin nitiska jakt på en flickmördare" Dagens Nyheter
"En på samma gång spännande och tankeväckande (rekonstruerad) kriminalroman" Kult MagasinLiket av en flicka upptäcks i skogarna utanför den schweiziska byn Mägendorf. Kommissarie Matthäi berörs djupt av tragedin och svär inför flickans föräldrar att han ska hitta mördaren. Men medan byborna redan bestämt sig för vem som är den skyldige och blir lättade när han hänger sig så är Matthäi inte lika säker …
Kommissariens löfte är den lika spännande som gripande historien om att kämpa för rättvisan och stå upp för sin sak – och priset som detta kommer med.
Efterord av Lena Andersson.
Häftad, Tyska, 1991
158 kr
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Pocket, Svenska, 2022
89 kr
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När en polisinspektor från Bern hittas skjuten vid vägkanten ute på landsbygden ger sig kommissarie Bärlach och hans assistent Tschanz ut för att hitta mördaren. Kommissarien är dödssjuk och har inte lång tid kvar. Snart upptäcker de att offret har skjutits på hemvägen från en hemlig fest hos en inflytelserik lobbyist. Varför umgicks en enkel polis i dessa mäktiga kretsar? Vem är den gåtfulle värden? Och varför har Bärlachs förflutna återvänt för att hemsöka honom under hans sista tid i livet?
Översättning och efterord av Ola Wallin.
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»Boken är både spännande och gripande, och det moraliska/etiska problem som dyker upp i slutet stannar kvar hos läsaren. Det är mycket välkommet med nyöversättningen av denna lilla pärla.« Veit G:Son Berg, Bibliotekstjänst
»Här vädras misstro mot statsapparaten, här skymtar hierarkierna inom poliskåren, här ställs gamla beprövade polismetoder mot nymodigheter som kriminologi och här knyts intrigtrådarna ihop i en filosofiskt kryddad kraftmätning à la Sherlock Holmes mot professor Moriarty eller Batman versus The Joker mellan vår kommissarie och den ärkeskurk han en gång för länge sedan stötte på i Istanbul. Allt på 120 sidor.« Anders Sjögren, Västerbottenskuriren
»Dürrenmatt omtolkade kriminalromanen... gav stafettpinnen vidare till likar som Umberto Eco och Paul Auster.« The National
»En trollbindande kriminalroman.« Washington Post
Häftad, Tyska
137 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
199 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
193 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1973
148 kr
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In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her. From its subtle exploration of parochial politics to its horrific climax, The Visit shows a population willing to sacrifice loyalty and scruples in the pursuit of riches. It is a drama of the absurd that reduces human nature to its most ridiculous depths.Dürrenmatt was one of the most important figures of modern European drama and The Visit remains both a powerful critique of twentieth century civilisation and an outstanding piece of experimental theatre.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
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The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, The Visit. With these long-awaited translations of his plays, fictions, and essays, Dürrenmatt becomes available again in all his brilliance to the English-speaking world. Dürrenmatt’s concerns are timeless, but they are also the product of his Swiss vantage during the cold war: his key plays, gathered in the first volume of Selected Writings, explore such themes as guilt by passivity, the refusal of responsibility, greed and political decay, and the tension between justice and freedom. In The Visit, for instance, an old lady who becomes the wealthiest person in the world returns to the village that cast her out as a young woman and offers riches to the town in exchange for the life of the man, now its mayor, who once disgraced her. Joel Agee’s crystalline translation gives a fresh lease to this play, as well as four others: The Physicists, Romulus the Great, Hercules and the Augean Stables, and The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi. Dürrenmatt has long been considered a great writer—but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes, a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
252 kr
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Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer—with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here Friedrich Dürrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating sense of timing and suspense. Joel Agee’s skilled translation effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as its chilling conclusion. One of Dürrenmatt’s most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
177 kr
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
397 kr
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In Friedrich Durrenmatt's experimental thriller "The Assignment", the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched - including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism.F.'s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Durrenmatt's fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee's elegant translation will introduce a generation of English-speaking readers to a master of language, suspense, and dystopia.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
243 kr
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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, The Visit. Dürrenmatt’s concerns are timeless, but they are also the product of his Swiss vantage during the cold war: his key plays, gathered in the first volume of Selected Writings, explore such themes as guilt by passivity, the refusal of responsibility, greed and political decay, and the tension between justice and freedom. In The Visit, for instance, an old lady who becomes the wealthiest person in the world returns to the village that cast her out as a young woman and offers riches to the town in exchange for the life of the man, now its mayor, who once disgraced her. Joel Agee’s crystalline translation gives a fresh lease to this play, as well as four others: The Physicists, Romulus the Great, Hercules and the Augean Stables, and The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi.Dürrenmatt has long been considered a great writer, but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes, a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
243 kr
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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, The Visit. This second volume of Selected Writings reveals a writer who may stand as Kafka’s greatest heir. Dürrenmatt’s novellas and short stories are searing, tragicomic explorations of the ironies of justice and the corruptibility of institutions. The most well-known work included here is The Pledge, a requiem to the detective story that was made into a film starring Jack Nicholson. The evocative novellas The Assignment tells the story of a woman filmmaker investigating a mysterious murder in an unnamed Arab country; it has been hailed by Sven Birkerts as “a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.” The novella Traps, meanwhile, is a chilling comic novella about a traveling salesman who agrees to play the role of the defendant in a mock trial among dinner companions—and then pays the ultimate penalty.Dürrenmatt has long been considered a great writer, but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes, a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
243 kr
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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, The Visit. With these long-awaited translations of his plays, fictions, and essays, Dürrenmatt becomes available again in all his brilliance to the English-speaking world. Dürrenmatt’s essays, gathered in this third volume of Selected Writings, are among his most impressive achievements. Their range alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority and charm about art, literature, philosophy, politics, and the theater. The selections here include Dürrenmatt’s best-known essays, such as “Theater Problems” and “Monster Essay on Justice and Law,” as well as the notes he took on a 1970 journey in America (in which he finds the United States “increasingly susceptible to every kind of fascism”). This volume also includes essays that shade into fiction, such as “The Winter War in Tibet,” a fantasy of a third world war waged in a vast subterranean labyrinth—a Plato’s Cave allegory rewritten for our own troubled times. Dürrenmatt has long been considered a great writer, but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes, a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
652 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1961
586 kr
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The full German text of Dürrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
216 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
144 kr
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his essays on literary forms as well as those on philosophy and politics provide a window onto his world and his work, demonstrating both his critical acumen and the breadth of his talents as a stylist.Gathered from throughout his long career, the writings featured in Dürrenmatt’s Selected Essays are by turns playful and polemical, poetic and provocative, mordantly comical and deadly serious. Critics have often been perplexed by Dürrenmatt’s sudden shifts—from stage to prose and back, from comedy to tragedy and vice versa, from writing to drawing. In this volume, the full range of his interests in arts and letters—and their relationships to each other—becomes evident. In one section, a cluster of essays on the theater illuminate his idiosyncratic dramaturgical theories, drawing on examples from Attic comedy to Schiller, Brecht, and professional wrestling. In another, his philosophical essays intermingle his passionate reflections on ethical and political questions with his skeptical forays into metaphysics. And in autobiographical pieces such as the monumental “Vallon de l’Ermitage,” Dürrenmatt offers an intimate look at his “web of time”—the places where he traveled and the people with whom he lived and worked.Suffused with melancholy, flashes of tenderness, and the author’s inimitable sense of the grotesque and absurd, these essays provide a compelling look at the author’s prodigious strength as a writer of nonfiction.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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The full German text of Dürrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2026172 kr
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Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe'Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance, greed, hate, love or whatever...'Conceived by BBC World Service producer Derek Hoddinott, the 1976 anthology series Murder International comprised half-hour adaptations of famous murder mysteries by world-renowned writers past and present, set in locations ranging from Corsica to St Petersburg, Malaysia, France and Spain. Collected here are ten of those thrilling dramas, each with a different theme, ranging from 'murder by the supernatural' to 'murder by duel'. Bringing them to life are a host of leading actors including Denis Quilley, Maureen O'Brien, George Cole, Christopher Cazenove, Joss Ackland, Michael Denison and George Baker.In The Hand by Guy Maupassant, an English aristocrat awaits his nemesis - alongside a gruesome trophy from his days in Africa.Mess, by Francis King, sees an adolescent boy taking extreme measures to escape his chaotic home life.The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin finds a high-stakes gambler risking his life and his sanity when he discovers the secret of how to win at cards.Face to face with the state assassin, a dissident writer defends his right to free speech in Friedrich Durrenmatt's Conversation at Night.Three men, maddened by greed for gold, turn on each other in The Treasure in the Forest by H.G. Wells.Serial wife-killer Clayton Allenby meets his match with bride number four in Julian Symons' The Accident.The youngest son of the Monkton family seems afflicted with hereditary madness in Wilkie Collins' Mad Monkton - but is he insane, or cursed?The Executioner, by Honore de Balzac, centres on a young Captain in the Napoleonic wars, who is ordered to carry out a terrible crime.Somerset Maugham's Footprints in the Jungle concerns a charming married couple with a shocking skeleton in their closet.In Stacy Aumonier's The Fall, when a petty crook turns murderer, Inspector Tolozan uses the man's greatest fear to extract a confession...First broadcast BBC Radio, 4 21 July - 29 September 1976With warm thanks to Keith Wickham and the Radio CircleNB: Some of the language on these vintage recordings reflects the era in which it was first broadcast, and due to the age of the source material, the sound quality may varyConversation at Night (c) 1986 by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich(c) 2026 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2026 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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"'It's a promise, Frau Moser,' the inspector said, impelled solely by the desire to leave this place."'On your eternal salvation?'"The inspector hesitated. 'On my eternal salvation,' he finally said. What else could he do?When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant Inspector Matthai can't put the case behind him. Not even when a local felon is arrested. Not even once the suspect has confessed.Matthai promises the girl's mother that he will stop at nothing to find the real killer.Adapted into a Hollywood film, The Pledge is the chilling story of a man in desperate search of the truth. A man driven to sacrifice everything, to commit acts of cruelty and obsession in a desperate search for a killer he can't find.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists.Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. This is a thriller that brings existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
126 kr
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A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him?As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. This is a captivating neo-noir classic fromthe master of the genre.The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality.
- Nyhet
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
126 kr
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'A book everybody should read' Jonathan Coe
'Powerful and compelling' Sunday Times Crime Club
'Jaw-dropping' Crime Review
'As terse and assured as the best of Simenon' Spectator
The brilliant Inspector Matthäi is haunted by the case of a young girl brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest. Even after a man is arrested and confesses to the crime, Matthäi is convinced the real killer is still out there. He makes a promise to the girl's mother: he will stop at nothing to bring the murderer to justice.
But Matthäi's pledge becomes an obsession, and soon he finds he is descending into the darkness himself...
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten.Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman. The locals hope her arrival signals a change in their fortunes, but they soon realise that prosperity will only come at a terrible price…Friedrich Dürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, has been transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.This revelatory new adaptation of The Visit opened in the Olivier auditorium of the National Theatre, London, in February 2020, directed by Jeremy Herrin, and starring Lesley Manville and Hugo Weaving.
Del 366 - Königs Erläuterungen
Der Besuch der alten Dame von Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Textanalyse und Interpretation
Häftad, Tyska, 2024
157 kr
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Del 368 - Königs Erläuterungen
Die Physiker von Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Textanalyse und Interpretation
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
155 kr
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Del 42 - Königs Erläuterungen
Der Richter und sein Henker von Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Textanalyse und Interpretation
Häftad, Tyska, 2012
165 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2006
498 kr
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139 kr
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