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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 received mainly positive reviews from critics. The film has a score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 124 reviews, with an average rating of 6.88/10. The critical consensus states: "Though its subject matter is grim and may make viewers queasy, The Pledge features an excellent, subtle performance by Jack Nicholson."
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
The Pledge (2001) It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958, Switzerland) The novella The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel (Friedrich Dürrenmatt) Premiere (1938) Premiere (1937, Austria) Prince of Arcadia (1933) The Prince of Arcadia (1932) The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) Bel Ami (1939) The novel Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant) Ripley's ...
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
Requiem (Russian: Реквием, Rekviem) is an elegy by Anna Akhmatova about the suffering of people under the Great Purge. It was written over three decades, between 1935 and 1961. [1] She carried it with her, redrafting, as she worked and lived in towns and cities across the Soviet Union. The set of poems was conspicuously absent from her ...
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Requiem Rekuiemu (れくいえむ) is a 1972 semi-autobiographical novel by Japanese author Shizuko Gō. It was originally published in Bungakukai in 1972, and won the Akutagawa Prize in the same year. It was published as a full volume in Japan in 1973, and translated into English by Geraldine Harcourt in 1983.