La promessa: Un requiem per il romanzo giallo
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788807811425 (8807811421)
Publish date: January 2003
Publisher: Feltrinelli
Pages no: 155
Edition language: Italian
In terra elvetica, precisa, pulita e razionale, certezza non v’è, e la ragione barcolla. Una beffa tremenda per la perfettissima Svizzera. Sembra il classico giallo: scoperto un cadavere, inizia l’indagine e si trova il colpevole. Dürrenmatt introduce però elementi che scompongono il disegno: caos...
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...
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...
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