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The Visit - Hardcover

Durrenmatt, Friedrich

 
9780224009140: The Visit
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0224009141 ISBN 13: 9780224009140
Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 1973

Inhaltsangabe

In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her.

From its subtle exploration of parochial politics to its horrific climax, The Visit shows a population willing to sacrifice loyalty and scruples in the pursuit of riches. It is a drama of the absurd that reduces human nature to its most ridiculous depths.

Dürrenmatt was one of the most important figures of modern European drama and The Visit remains both a powerful critique of twentieth century civilisation and an outstanding piece of experimental theatre.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born on 5 January 1921 in the Emmental, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant pastor. At the age of 26, his first work, It Is Written, premiered to great controversy, and he went on to write many successful and challenging plays, including Romulus the Great and The Physicists. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. He wrote avant-garde dramas, satire and philosophical crime novels and he was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Dürrenmatt died from heart failure in Neuchâtel in 1990, aged 69.

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Verlag
Jonathan Cape
Erscheinungsdatum
1973
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0224009141
ISBN 13 
9780224009140
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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