Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826402578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Six richly inventive pieces by the Swiss master of existentialist theater. Includes "Romulus the Great, 21 Points to the Physician," and "A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law.">
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226174263
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226174328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Timo Tiusanen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Dürrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret his works. In his critical approach to Dürrenmatt, Timo Tiusanen emphasizes the author's relation to the theater, and analyzes the thirteen original stage plays, eight radio plays, and five adaptations, using the special concept of "scenic image" developed in an earlier study of O'Neill. Four books by Dürrenmatt on the theater and politics are related to the dramatist's creative practice, and his six books of prose are also carefully considered. Exploring the writer's career to reconcile conflicting attitudes that have been taken toward his work, Timo Tiusanen sees Dürrenmatt's writings as representing a persistent effort to express artistically a paradoxical view of the world. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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A comedy melodrama concerning three mad physicists in a Swiss sanatorium.
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653121X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s essays 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. With these long-awaited translations of his plays, fictions, and essays, Dürrenmatt becomes available again in all his brilliance to the English-speaking world. Dürrenmatt’s essays, gathered in this third volume of Selected Writings, are among his most impressive achievements. Their range alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority and charm about art, literature, philosophy, politics, and the theater. The selections here include Dürrenmatt’s best-known essays, such as “Theater Problems” and “Monster Essay on Justice and Law,” as well as the notes he took on a 1970 journey in America (in which he finds the United States “increasingly susceptible to every kind of fascism”). This volume also includes essays that shade into fiction, such as “The Winter War in Tibet,” a fantasy of a third world war waged in a vast subterranean labyrinth—a Plato’s Cave allegory rewritten for our own troubled times. 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.
Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871297907
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653054X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism. F.’s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Dürrenmatt’s fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee’s elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature’s masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. “The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . As the novella builds to its horripilating climax, we realize the extent to which all values have thereby been inverted. The Assignment is a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.”—New York Times Book Review “His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind’s most fiendish crimes.”—Chicago Tribune “A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.”—Village Voice
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Robert Musil
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Writings: Young Torless, Three Women, The Perfecting of a Love and other Writings, by Musil by Robert Musil>
