The Visit

A Tragicomedy

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Beschreibung

<p><b>In this ALTA National Translation Award–winning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth-century theater.</b></p><p>Friedrich Dürrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: “I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and <i>The Visit</i> is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo.</p><p>The play takes place “somewhere in Central Europe” and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed and confronts the perennial questions of honor, loyalty, and community.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780802144263

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

208 x 136 x 15 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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