Bluebeard-Modern Classics

Doctor Schaad is under arrest for strangling his ex-wife to death. For the prosecutor, the reason for the murder is clear: Jealousy. After his acquittal, we witness the ongoing trial process, sometimes real and sometimes imaginary, in Schaad's mind and what this process reminds him of...

Max Frisch says about Perrault's novel, which takes its name from Bluebeard, the fairy-tale hero who kills his wives and hides them in the basement: Schaad does not know what he means by crime, I guess he is not the only one who does not know this today. Schaad feels an implicit sense of guilt. For me, the center of this book is the problem of guilt and innocence in a case where guilt cannot be proven by action. What interests me is not the case itself, but the method and technique of finding the truth, that is, the judiciary...

Bluebeard is a very well crafted narrative. Neither Simenon nor Agatha Christie could have done better.

Hans Mayer, Die Zeit

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 96

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish