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In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’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 Dürrenmatt’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
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- ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
- Date d'édition1988
- ISBN 10 0224025597
- ISBN 13 9780224025591
- ReliureRelié
- Langueallemand
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages129
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The Assignment or on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
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The Assignment or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
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The Assignment
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THE ASSIGNMENT OR ON THE OBSERVING OF THE OBSERVER OF THE OBSERVERS
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ISBN 13 : 9780224025591
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