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in 1965. Vonnegut compared Dürrenmatt's stories to Swiss clockworks, and wrote that the author "is a fascinating, endearing maker of clocks. He chooses to write this way, invented this way of writing. The puzzle is: He seems to be attacking something brilliantly, but what is it?" Vonnegut wrote: "His
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Michael Mathias Prechtl
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Richard Winston
Clara Winston
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Kurt Vonnegut
The New York Times
Jungian
Kraut
Once a Greek
Rolf Thiele
Heinz Rühmann
1955 in literature
Swiss literature
Vonnegut, Kurt
"Everything Goes Like Clockwork"
The New York Times
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Romulus the Great
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
The Visit
The Physicists
Play Strindberg
The Judge and His Hangman
Suspicion
The Tunnel

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