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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.

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

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...