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Durrenmatt Friedrich - Friedrich Durrenmatt Selected Writings Volume 1, Plays - Paperback
Durrenmatt Friedrich - Friedrich Durrenmatt Selected Writings Volume 1, Plays - Paperback
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Description: These translations of Friedrich D rrenmatt's plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich D rrenmatt (1921 90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war arguably only Beckett Camus Sartre and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe this prolific author is primarily known for only one work The Visit. D rrenmatt's concerns are timeless but they are also the product of his Swiss vantage during the cold war: his key plays gathered in the first volume of Selected Writings explore such themes as guilt by passivity the refusal of responsibility greed and political decay and the tension between justice and freedom. In The Visit for instance an old lady who becomes the wealthiest person in the world returns to the village that cast her out as a young woman and offers riches to the town in exchange for the life of the man now its mayor who once disgraced her. Joel Agee's crystalline translation gives a fresh lease to this play as well as four others: The Physicists Romulus the Great Hercules and the Augean Stables and The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi. D rrenmatt has long been considered a great writer but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
Title: Friedrich Durrenmatt Selected Writings Volume 1, Plays
Author(s): Durrenmatt Friedrich, Kenneth J. Northcott
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226836683
Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2025
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
Description: These translations of Friedrich D rrenmatt's plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich D rrenmatt (1921 90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war arguably only Beckett Camus Sartre and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe this prolific author is primarily known for only one work The Visit. D rrenmatt's concerns are timeless but they are also the product of his Swiss vantage during the cold war: his key plays gathered in the first volume of Selected Writings explore such themes as guilt by passivity the refusal of responsibility greed and political decay and the tension between justice and freedom. In The Visit for instance an old lady who becomes the wealthiest person in the world returns to the village that cast her out as a young woman and offers riches to the town in exchange for the life of the man now its mayor who once disgraced her. Joel Agee's crystalline translation gives a fresh lease to this play as well as four others: The Physicists Romulus the Great Hercules and the Augean Stables and The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi. D rrenmatt has long been considered a great writer but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
Title: Friedrich Durrenmatt Selected Writings Volume 1, Plays
Author(s): Durrenmatt Friedrich, Kenneth J. Northcott
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226836683
Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2025
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
