Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote Das Versprechen (published in English as The Pledge) after he was asked to write a film script for a project that would end up being one of the seminal moments of German/Swiss film making: Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). The 1958 version...
bookshelves: radio-4x, switzerland, mystery-thriller, spring-2015, published-1953, tbr-busting-2015, translation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from October 20, 2012 to May 02, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0...
The fact is, there's nothing more scandalous than a miracle in the realm of science. Three of history's greatest physicists meet in a drawing-room: Newton, Einstein and Möbius. Newton has a bottle of cognac hidden in the fireplace. Einstein has just strangled a woman to death. And Möbius is being vi...
I think it seemed unrealistic because it was a Hollywood-style morality tale, except reversed, from a Swiss-German perspective, so that getting inefficiently, emotionally involved beyond the bare details of the case is considered excessive and even blinding.
In the Summer and Fall of 1907, Rilke traveled to Paris. He spent many days rapt before the paintings of Cézanne in the Salon d'Autome, which was holding a memorial exhibition of the painter's work. Rilke captured his reactions and developing thoughts about art and artists in a series of letters to ...
Film only winter 2012/2013 translation pub 1958 switzerland mystery short story Adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson. Okay - I was well fed up that the film was set in US as most of the initial attraction lay in anticipation of the Swiss coun...
The best crime fiction novel I read so far.The written proof how literary genres and labels should not mean a thing.In fact calling Dürrenmatt a crime fiction novelist would be a crime by itself. And yet this book must be read from all those who are idolizing the "Scandinavian crime fiction golden v...
You set up your stories logically, like a chess game: here’s the criminal, there’s the victim, here’s an accomplice, there’s a beneficiary; and all the detective needs to know is the rules, he replays the moves of the game, and checkmate,the criminal is caught and justice has triumphed. It drives me...
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