The Assignment

Name: The Assignment
Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Writer discovers his fictional character has become reality

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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.

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