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The visit : a tragicomedy / Friedrich Dürrenmatt ; translated from the German by Joel Agee.
Van Pelt Library PT2607.U493 B4313 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich.
- Standardized Title:
- Besuch der alten Dame. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Tragicomedy--Drama.
- Tragicomedy.
- Tragicomedy--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Swiss drama (German) -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
- Tragicomedy.
- Drama.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Grove Press, ©2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "Friedrich Durrenmatt 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. 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. Durrenmatt once wrote of himself: "I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Durrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. 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. Durrenmatt 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."--Publisher description.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Switzerland under the title Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit), published by Verlag der Arche, Zürich 1956 and revised version ... 1980"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Contains:
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich. Besuch der alten Dame. Revised version.
- ISBN:
- 9780802144263
- 0802144268
- OCLC:
- 316026551
- Publisher Number:
- 99996044986
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