Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote Swiss-German plays, crime novels and philosophical fiction in which justice is complicated by chance, corruption and the limits of rational control. The Judge and His Hangman follows Inspector Bärlach through a murder investigation shaped by an old moral wager, while The Pledge deliberately undermines the neat logic of detective fiction when an investigator becomes consumed by a promise to solve a child's murder. The Visit turns a wealthy woman's return to an impoverished town into a grotesque test of collective morality, and The Physicists places scientific responsibility inside an absurd asylum farce. Dürrenmatt's writing is darkly comic, tightly plotted and sceptical of systems that claim to produce clean justice. His work fits philosophical crime, absurdist drama and European modern classics. Read more Less
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