by Friedrich Dürrenmatt · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472232877
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«El juez y su verdugo» is the crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
In his investigation of a murder for which there are barely any clues, Inspector Bärlach seems to lapse into apathy, but in reality he pursues his own notion of justice. To impose it, he is willing to use less-than-clean means. The work combines irony and satire with a bitter look at the human soul, and its ending proves as cruel as it is unpredictable.
Dürrenmatt's first crime novel and the first title in the Inspector Bärlach series. At Tusquets it is part of the Andanzas collection, number 87.
For readers of classic noir fiction and twentieth-century European literature seeking a short story with a moral debate between justice and revenge.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire. Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten, a group of left-wing Swiss writers who convened regularly at a restaurant in the city of Olten.
