The Assignment or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

DURRENMATT, Friedrich (Author0; Agee, Joel (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0224025597 / ISBN 13: 9780224025591

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1988

About this Item

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed, and light score on front board towards the upper edge. Otherwise, as unread. LW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Assignment or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0224025597
• ISBN 13: 9780224025591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Otto von Lambert's wife is found dead. He urges F to undertake an assignement to reconstruct the murder. F is fascinated by Otto's notes and by the discovery that Tina had kept an eerie journal on her psychiatrist husband and finds herself involved in a web of murder and international intrigue.

Review

"A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing."--"Village Voice""" "" ""

"[Durrenmatt] doesn't so much alter the rules as sweep all the figures to the floor."--"Guardian """ "" ""

"A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing."-Village Voice

"A parable of hell for an age consumed by images."-New York Times Book Review

"[Drrenmatt] doesn't so much alter the rules as sweep all the figures to the floor."-Guardian

"His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind's most fiendish crimes."-Chicago Tribune

"Reading Drrenmatt's work leaves us with the impression of having witnessed the creation and then the explosion of a small galaxy. The light continues to reach us long after closing his books." -- Alberto Manguel "Spectator"

“Reading Dürrenmatt’s work leaves us with the impression of having witnessed the creation and then the explosion of a small galaxy. The light continues to reach us long after closing his books.”—Alberto Manguel, "Spectator""" ""  --Alberto Manguel "Spectator "

“Mystery readers should be grateful to the University of Chicago Press for bringing these gems back to life.”—Richard Lipez, "Washington"" Post""" "" "" "" --Richard Lipez "Washington Post "

"Reading Durrenmatt's work leaves us with the impression of having witnessed the creation and then the explosion of a small galaxy. The light continues to reach us long after closing his books."--Alberto Manguel "Spectator "