This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to
the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose
genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and
anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other
contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector
Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between
crime and justice seems to have vanished. In "The Judge and His
Hangman," Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to
manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. And in
"Suspicion," Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into
his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself. The
result is two thrillers that bring existential philosophy and the
detective genre into dazzling convergence.
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