Author: Ziolkowski Theodore Ziolkowski

In Friedrich Durrenmatt s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstr …

These translations of Friedrich Durrenmatt s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921 90) was one of the most important literary figures …

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addres …

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of …