{"id":103190,"date":"2016-09-30T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103190"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:31:54","slug":"friedrich-durrenmatt-judge-hangman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/30\/friedrich-durrenmatt-judge-hangman\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt, <i>The Judge and His Hangman<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Matteo Pericoli is the founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablitarch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laboratory of Literary Architecture<\/a>,\u00a0an interdisciplinary project that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/literary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">looks at fiction through the lens of architecture<\/a>,\u00a0designing and building stories\u00a0as architectural projects. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/category\/literary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">this series<\/a>, he\u00a0shares some of his designs and what they reveal about the stories they\u2019re modeled on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/perspective.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-103191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/perspective.jpg\" alt=\"perspective\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt\u2019s mystery novel <a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/I\/bo4343142.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Judge and His Hangman<\/em><\/a>\u00a0revolves around a sudden nighttime encounter between chief detective B\u00e4rlach, an inspector with the Bern police,\u00a0and his eternal rival, Gastmann. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the encounter, we learn that the two men had met forty years earlier at a dive bar in the Bosporus where, inebriated, they made a bet that will bind them for the rest of their lives. B\u00e4rlach maintained that committing a crime is an \u201cact of stupidity\u201d: human imperfection, the unpredictable actions of others, and the inability of taking chance into account are the reasons why most crimes are inevitably solved. His rival, \u201cmore for the sake of argument than out of conviction,\u201d instead maintained that it was exactly <em>because<\/em> of \u201cthe entanglement of human relationships\u201d that he could commit unsolvable crimes, crimes that B\u00e4rlach would never be able to prove. From that day on, the detective vowed to spend his life trying to nail his rival.<\/p>\n<p>Forty years later, we\u2019re at a showdown. With both the bet and the life of the now-terminally-ill B\u00e4rlach at stake, even we readers feel that we can put together the pieces\u2014both of Gastmann\u2019s umpteenth crime and of what seems to be the classic structure of a great mystery novel. Along with the inspector, we think we\u2019ve identified the murderer by piecing several clues together. The architecture\u2019s finishing touch is within reach. All we have to do is sit back and watch how D\u00fcrrenmatt\u2014through B\u00e4rlach\u2014will solve the mystery that\u2019s been constructed thus far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/axonometry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-103192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/axonometry.jpg\" alt=\"axonometry\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The building is clean and compact. We see its solids and voids: elements of a structure that, at first glance, is whole and homogeneous. Its apparent uniformity all\u00a0but hides the construction\u2019s profound dualism. The space we are about to enter is not, in fact, that of the novel\u2019s structure: its imposing shapes, which oppose and mirror each other, which chase and complete each other, are the two protagonists bound together by the bet.<\/p>\n<p>As in the novel\u2014with its surprise ending that flips everything upside down, transforming the structure we had taken for granted into a profound moral and existential dilemma\u2014in the building, what seemed to obscure now illuminates, what once concealed now is hidden, what seemed to give support is now nothing but a weight to bear and understand.<\/p>\n<p>How could B\u00e4rlach, of all people, end up giving in to Gastmann\u2019s diabolical provocation and, just so he can catch him, rely precisely on \u201chuman imperfection\u201d to achieve his goal? The void at the center of the building, around which the two volumes torment each other, that nothingness at the building\u2019s core, could be hiding the answer.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In collaboration with Giuseppe Franco.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matteo Pericoli is the founder of the\u00a0Laboratory of Literary Architecture,\u00a0an interdisciplinary project that looks at fiction through the lens of architecture,\u00a0designing and building stories\u00a0as architectural projects. In this series, he\u00a0shares some of his designs and what they reveal about the stories they\u2019re modeled on. 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