The Assignment
or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
Translated by Joel Agee
With a new Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski
152 pages
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5 1/2 x 8
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© 1986, 1988, 2008
Review Quotes
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.”
New York Times Book Review
“A parable of hell for an age consumed by images.”
Chicago Tribune
“His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind’s most fiendish crimes.”
Richard Lipez | Washington Post
“Mystery readers should be grateful to the University of Chicago Press for bringing these gems back to life.”
Guardian
“[Dürrenmatt] doesn’t so much alter the rules as sweep all the figures to the floor.”
Village Voice
“A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.”
Boston Globe
"Intelligent, gripping fiction with sinister and uncomfortable implications."
Sven Birkerts | New Republic
"Sui generis, a late-modernist legend that pushes past the usual conceptions of self and society and finds a whole new way of rendering disturbance."
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