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Pledge | Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer--with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here Friedrich Durrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating sense of timing and suspense. Joel Agee's skilled translation effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as its chilling conclusion. One of Durrenmatt's most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.
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MariaW
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After I went to the guiddd tour about Dürrenmatt, I started to listen to The Pledge. It started well off with the meta level of the story being told to the author. I thought ghe ending was quite unsatisfactory, but then I read the background story of Dürrenmatt being disappointed about the endings of typical detective stories. This helped me to appriciate the ending more.

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masticocarta
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Leggero, scorrevole, intrigante anche se molto breve.
Finale forse un pò buttato via..

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charl08
Pledge | Friedrich Dürrenmatt

All we need—I can imagine you making some sly calculation like this—all we need is for Matthäi to be on the right track, let him capture the murderer in the end, and bingo, we‘ve got a terrific novel or movie script. After all, what‘s the purpose of writing if not to give things a certain twist that‘ll make them transparent, so that the higher idea shines through just enough for the reader to sense it...

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