The Assignment (Paperback)

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2008

0226174468 / 9780226174464

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Paperback. In Friedrich Duerrenmatts 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 unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watchedincluding 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 Duerrenmatts fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agees elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literatures masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . As the novella builds to its horripilating climax, we realize the extent to which all values have thereby been inverted. The Assignment is a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.New York Times Book Review His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankinds most fiendish crimes.Chicago Tribune A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.Village Voice 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The Assignment (Paperback)
Autore
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Editore
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Anno di pubblicazione
2008
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0226174468
ISBN 13
9780226174464

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