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Dürrenmatt uses a first-person narrative to insert himself into a frame story as a writer of detective fiction.However, the primary narrator is actually a character named Dr. H., a retired police chief who takes on the role of explaining to Dürrenmatt's first-person character the flaws of the detective literature genre.
The Pledge is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological mystery drama film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson alongside an ensemble supporting cast of Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Noonan, Lois Smith and Benicio del Toro.
The Pledge, an 1831 play by James Kenney; The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, a 1958 novella by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; The Pledge, a 2001 American mystery directed by Sean Penn; The Pledge, the title of the DVD release of A Gunfighter's Pledge, a 2008 TV Western; The Pledge (British TV programme), 2016-2020
A new translation by Joel Agee appeared in 2006, published together with the book's sequel, Suspicion, as The Inspector Bärlach Mysteries, with a foreword by Sven Birkerts. Together with Dürrenmatt's The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel , these stories are considered classics of crime fiction , fusing existential philosophy and the ...
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Requiem for Bishop Cirilo Almario, in the Mass of Paul VI at Minor Basilica and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Malolos, Bulacan, 2016 The Requiem, in the Tridentine Mass, celebrated annually for Louis XVI and victims of the French Revolution, in the crypt of Strasbourg Cathedral, 2013 Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at St. Catherine's Cathedral, St. Petersburg ...
Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, original title of The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, a 1958 German novella by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Das Versprechen, original German title of 1995 film The Promise; Das Versprechen, original German title of 2016 documentary Killing for Love
"The Pledge" (German: "Die Bürgschaft", pronounced [diː ˈbʏʁkʃaft] ⓘ) is a ballad published by the German poet Friedrich Schiller in his 1799 Musen-Almanach. He took the idea out of the ancient legend of Damon and Pythias issuing from the Latin Fabulae by Gaius Julius Hyginus , as rendered in the medieval collection of the Gesta Romanorum .