Answer the following about postmodern uses of detective fiction, for 10 points each.
[10m] The inspector Wallas is hired to investigate the murder of Daniel Dupont, but inadvertently murders him, in this nouveau roman by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
ANSWER: The Erasers [or Les Gommes]
[10h] Inspector Barlach engages in a battle of wits with the criminal Gastmann in this author’s The Judge and His Hangman. This author subtitled his novella The Pledge a “Requiem for the Detective Novel.”
ANSWER: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
[10e] William of Baskerville investigates a series of murders in a medieval Benedictine monastery in this debut novel by Umberto Eco.
ANSWER: The Name of the Rose [or Il Nome della Rosa]
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