Visit

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ISBN: 9780802144263

ISBN-10: 0802144268

ISBN-13: 9780802144263

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Authors: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Joel Agee

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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. In this ALTA National Translation Awardwinning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth-century theater. Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt 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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English