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Friedrich D?rrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays by Friedrich Durrenmatt (Hardcover, 2006)

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (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. With these long-awaited translations of his plays, fictions, and essays, Durrenmatt becomes available again in all his brilliance to the English-speaking world. Durrenmatt?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. Durrenmatt 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.

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The University of Chicago Press
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9780226174266
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Book Title
Friedrich D?Rrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays
Author
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Plays
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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229mm
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164mm
Item Weight
654g

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Friedrich Durrenmatt
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United States
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Kenneth J. Northcott

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