by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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...
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.
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...
I can see why this would have been popular when it was written in the 1950s, but nowadays it mostly just seems quaint. This is especially so because DNA testing would render the entire story pointless in today's world of mysteries. Still, it's a worthwhile and fast read, good if you have anything li...
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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