"Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge."
""Toda la filosofía de la novela policíaca clásica podría resumirse en la palabra 'elemental, ' con la que Holmes señala el triunfo de la razón sobre el misterio, del orden sobre el caos. En La Promesa (1958) se describe el desplome moral del detective ante un misterio que escapa a las leyes de la lógica y cuyo inesperado desenlace jamás podría anticiparse por un simple proceso de observación y deducción. En esta novela cruel, donde el absurdo impone su lógica implacable, redescubrimos brutalmente que la realidad no cabe nunca en una fórmula elemental"--Back cover."
"A detective, unsatisfied with a suspect's confession to the murder of a little girl, tries to use another girl as bait to catch the killer."
"A detective, unsatisfied with a suspect's confession to the murder of a little girl, tries to use another girl as bait to catch the killer."@en
"The detective investigating a little girl's murder promises the child's mother that he will find the culprit, and his vow turns into an obsession that will take him into the depths of good and evil, crime and punishment."@en
"Der Kriminalroman beginnt damit, dass ein ehemaliger Kommandant der Kantonspolizei Zürich einem Schriftsteller, der einen Vortrag über die Kunst des Kriminalromanschreibens gehalten hat, die Geschichte eines Falls schildert. Er erzählt von einem seiner Kommissäre, einem brillanten Detektiv, der der Mutter eines ermordeten Mädchens das Versprechen gibt, den Fall zu lösen. Immer mehr verstrickt sich der Kommissär in die Aufdeckung des Verbrechens: Er verliert seine Stelle, richtet sich ein Leben als Tankwart ein, um dem Täter auf die Spur zu kommen, und verwahrlost im Lauf der Jahre immer mehr. Dem Kommandanten spielt der Zufall viel später die Lösung zu, als er ans Sterbebett einer alten Frau gerufen wird. - Neben der zwar komplexen, aber trotzdem klaren Struktur des Textes, der zu Überlegungen über Erzähltechniken anregt, bietet der spannende Roman viel Stoff für Diskussionen. Eine Klassenlektüre eignet sich für Abschlussklassen der Oberstufe resp. Gymnasialklassen. (Quelle: Verzeichnis ZKL)."
"Přepsáním literární předlohy k filmu Stalo se za bílého dne do epické podoby vznikl originální detektivní antiromán. Ironicky se v něm polemizuje s názorem, který redukuje skutečnost na kvantitativní veličinu a člověka na pouhý kalkul."
"Déchéance sociale, morale et physique pour le commissaire Mathieu, le seul pourtant qui ait vu clair dans cette affaire..."
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Powieść kryminalna szwajcarska w języku niemieckim 1945-.
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