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ISBN-10: 0393933512
ISBN-13: 9780393933512
Edition: 2011
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The Georg Büchner Prize is the highest literary honor for German language writers, and the full extent of Büchnerâs influenceâfrom Gerhardt Hauptmann to Christa Wolf, Max Reinhardt to Robert Wilson, Alban Berg to Tom Waitsâdefies cataloging.When Georg Büchner died in 1837 at the age of twenty-three, he left behind a small and heterogenous body of work, most of it unpublished: three plays, a novella, a political pamphlet, a dissertation, medical lectures, and letters. Matthew Wilson Smith has newly translated Büchnerâs introduction to On Cranial Nerves. Each text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. The editorâs introduction examines the complexities of Büchnerâs short… life and how they informed his writing. The volume also contains ten illustrations.âContextsâ includes Büchnerâs correspondence with the people who knew him best, impressions of Büchner from a fellow medical student, excerpts from Büchnerâs diary, the wanted poster calling for Büchnerâs arrest for political conspiracy as well as the real-life inspirations his novella, Lenz, and his best-known play, Woyzeck.For ease of reference, âCriticismâ is topically arranged by work and includes assessments by, among others, Laura Ginters, Victor Brombert, Bertolt Brecht, Henry Schmidt, Andrew Webber, Rainer Maria Rilke, and George Steiner. Three accounts of important productions of Dantonâs Death are reprinted, including John Housemanâs remarks on Orson Wellesâs staging. Finally, the speeches of four winners of the Georg BuÌchner PrizeâPaul Celan, Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller, and Durs Grünbeinâare reprinted in their entirety.A Chronology of Büchnerâs life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.