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...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an archsadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...
...Novelist Kesey has not descended to mere shock treatment or isolation-ward documentary. His book is a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil, despite its macabre setting. For as the boardinghouse provided a stock slice-of-life locale for another generation of writers, the sanitarium seems to appeal to many modern writers as a comparable microcosm of the times...
...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an arch sadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author of The Visit with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...
...things about the saturnine Dr. Emmenberger is that his "patients"-both in the concentration camp and the sanitarium-submit voluntarily to his knives, saws and pliers in the hope of some kind of freedom, if only the relative freedom of another few days of miserable life. Dr. E. has his own idea of freedom: "Like the Christians, who believe in three things which are only one thing-the Trinity-I believe in two things which are one and the same, namely that something is and that I am. . . There is no justice. How could matter be just? There is only...
Freedom Is Crime. The hero, Hans Barlach, is a retired Swiss police commissioner, convalescing from an operation for cancer. He comes to suspect that a notorious doctor who performed experimental operations without anesthetic in Nazi concentration camps may be the same surgeon who is running a swank sanitarium near Zurich. Barlach commits himself to the sanitarium in the hope of exposing the evil M.D., but finds himself trapped and helpless in Dr. Emmenberger's grisly suite of torture chambers...