The Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers by Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

The Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226174464)

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The Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers by Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

The Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

$15.00
The Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers by Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

The Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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In Friedrich D?renmatt'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 unwittingly 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 D?renmatt'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 fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature's 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 mankind's most fiendish crimes."--Chicago Tribune

"A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing."--Village Voice

Author: Friedrich D?renmatt
ISBN-10: 0226174468
ISBN-13: 9780226174464
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2008
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d
By Friedrich D?renmatt
By Friedrich D?renmatt
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Friedrich D?renmatt was born in 1921 in the village of Konolfingen, near Berne, Switzerland. He wrote prolifically during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, taking particular interest in human rights and the preservation of Israel. He is the author of numerous books published by the University of Chicago Press, including The Pledge.
Joel Agee has translated numerous German authors into English, including Heinrich von Kleist, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Elias Canetti. In 2005 he received the Modern Language Association's Lois Roth Award for his translation of Hans Erich Nossack's The End: Hamburg 1943.
Theodore Ziolkowski is the Class of 1900 Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises.

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