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Author : Bodo Fritzen
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Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Collection of Critical Essays written by Bodo Fritzen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226174263
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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ISBN 13 : 9780857421685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Selected Essays written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Dürrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his essays on literary forms as well as those on philosophy and politics provide a window onto his world and his work, demonstrating both his critical acumen and the breadth of his talents as a stylist. Gathered from throughout his long career, the writings featured in Dürrenmatt's Selected Essays are by turns playful and polemical, poetic and provocative, mordantly comical and deadly serious. Critics have often been perplexed by Dürrenmatt's sudden shifts--from stage to prose and back, from comedy to tragedy and vice versa, from writing to drawing. In this volume, the full range of his interests in arts and letters--and their relationships to each other--becomes evident. In one section, a cluster of essays on the theater illuminate his idiosyncratic dramaturgical theories, drawing on examples from Attic comedy to Schiller, Brecht, and professional wrestling. In another, his philosophical essays intermingle his passionate reflections on ethical and political questions with his skeptical forays into metaphysics. And in autobiographical pieces such as the monumental "Vallon de l'Ermitage," Dürrenmatt offers an intimate look at his "web of time"--the places where he traveled and the people with whom he lived and worked. Suffused with melancholy, flashes of tenderness, and the author's inimitable sense of the grotesque and absurd, these essays provide a compelling look at the author's prodigious strength as a writer of nonfiction.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226174328
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Roger Alan Crockett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032134
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Understanding Fr written by Roger Alan Crockett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory volume explores the playwright's chaotic universe, where God has retreated beyond the stars and where blind chance is the real prime mover, justice is corruptible, ideologies useless, and tragedy no longer possible. Yet despite the overriding pessimism of Durrenmatt's Weltanschauung, the author argues that the playwright remains a genial master of comedy. Through the laughter he allows his readers to see that all is not lost, that there are virtues worth fighting for, and that there are still courageous Don Quixotes worthy of the title "hero." Crockett contends that as a theorist of the modern German stage, Durrenmatt challenges Bertolt Brecht and offers alternatives. As a craftsman of prose fiction, he fashions the stout thread with which the readers enter his labyrinths and eventually find their way back out, while his literary Theseuses, clinging to gossamer strands, sometimes fall prey to the monster in the maze.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826402578
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Plays and Essays: Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826402585
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays: Hans Magnus Enzensberger written by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1982-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timo Tiusanen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871468
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Durrenmatt written by Timo Tiusanen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135941297
Total Pages : 3105 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 3105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Author : Michael T. O'Pecko
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
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Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Twentieth-century German Novel written by Michael T. O'Pecko and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for thia title.
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Total Pages : 602 pages
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Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653071X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Inspector Barlach Mysteries written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. And in Suspicion, Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself. The result is two thrillers that bring existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence.
Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140246843
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Death and the Maiden written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” —The New York Times The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.
Author : Wolfgang Elfe
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
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Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century German Dramatists, 1919-1992 written by Wolfgang Elfe and published by Gale Research International, Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of fifty German, Austrian, and Swiss-German writers, most of whom had their first significant work published or performed after World War I; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.
Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher : Saint James Press
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Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the entire spectrum of the literature of the Holocaust era, from the beginnings of Nazism through the concentration camp experience, survivor syndrome and second generation response, this detailed survey includes entries on more than 200 authors and 300 works. Author entries include detailed biographical information as well as expert analytical interpretation. Work entries discuss each work in detail and include a critical essay written by an expert in the field. Value added features include chronologies, further reading lists and nationality, concentration camp and title indexes.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653121X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Margaret Scanlan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920351
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Plotting Terror written by Margaret Scanlan and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scanlan (English, Indiana University South Bend) considers several novels about terrorists and considers what they say about the role of the writer in modern society and politics. She examines the figure of the writer as a rival or a mirror of the terrorist, tracing the development of this relationship from its Romantic origins to the age of the Unabomber. The works of DeLillo, Rushdie, McNamee, Mary McCarthy, Lessing, Coetzee, Durrenmatt, Roth, Robert Stone, Volodine, and Conrad are specifically considered. c. Book News Inc.
