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In Friedrich Durrenmatt?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 Durrenmatt?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 VoiceProduct Identifiers
PublisherThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN-139780226174464
eBay Product ID (ePID)96583168
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Assignment: Or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
AuthorFriedrich Durrenmatt
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2008
Dimensions
Item Height211 mm
Item Width136 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorFriedrich Durrenmatt