Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Name: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226836683
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Autor: Kenneth J Northcott, Joel Agee

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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s plays introduce the writer to a new generation of reade...

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Autor

Kenneth J Northcott, Joel Agee

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engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2024

Pagini

328

EAN

9780226836683

ISBN

0226836681

Enbook ID

45584349

Editura

University of Chicago Press

Greutate

454

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 33

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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (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. Dürrenmatt’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. Dürrenmatt 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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