Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss author known for his darkly absurdist plays and fiction. The Pledge and The Assignment are his finest prose works, detective novels that subvert the conventions of the genre to explore moral ambiguity.
Works
- The PledgeInspector pledges to solve a child's murder despite impossibility
- The AssignmentWriter discovers his fictional character has become reality
- The Judge and His HangmanSwiss detective investigations and dark secrets in criminal underworld
- The QuarryWealthy man is pursued and hunted as a criminal
- Once a GreekTyrannical father and rebellious son explore power and freedom