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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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Physicists written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy melodrama concerning three mad physicists in a Swiss sanatorium.
Author : Friedrich Durrenmatt
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871297907
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Conversation at Night with a Despised Character written by Friedrich Durrenmatt and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1947 with total page 32 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 : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573617546
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Visit written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An older woman who became rich over her life returns to the town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her in exchange for enough money to revitalize the town.
Author : Kenneth S. Whitton
Publisher : London : O. Wolff ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Kenneth S. Whitton and published by London : O. Wolff ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822202844
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Deadly Game written by Friedrich Duerrenmatt and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1966-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As told by Atkinson (NY Times): Three retired men of law on a remote mountain in Switzerland amuse themselves by going through the legal ceremony of prosecuting strangers who drop in. An American traveling salesman is their guest on a s
Author : Carol Rosen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886503
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Plays of Impasse written by Carol Rosen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of post–World War II plays set in “total institutions” such as hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military bases Plays of Impasse probes the structure and significance of the numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society’s dead ends—the hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Irving Goffman as “total institutions.” Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to exclude the audience, turning an encompassing stage structure—a closed, controlling, absolute system—into a protagonist that overwhelms the characters. In discussions ranging from Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse to Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, she further maintains that the impasse of characters in reductive environments supplies a unifying image for post–World War II drama in general. This state of impasse pervades contemporary drama. Everyday activities and attempts to endure life in a parenthesis are vacated of traditional social or moral meaning onstage. The pain of this kind of survival, spatially fixed, is at the heart of Endgame, for example, an extreme instance of this mode of drama at the edge of existence. In plays such as Peter Nichols’s The National Health, Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists, David Storey’s Home, Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow, Jean Genet’s Deathwatch, and David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, the splintered self, like the divided society, strives to endure against enormous, codified odds. Even in plays not depicting the rigidity of institutions, the contemporary dramatic mode is finally characterized by sparse, introspective action in a closed system—an onstage model of a world gone awry, a world at an impasse. Originally published in 1983. 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 : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871294456
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Episode on an Autumn Evening written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1959 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224009141
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Visit written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1973 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, returns to her poverty-stricken home town. The townspeople are ready to grovel for favours and select as their representative Anton Schell, for Claire and Anton had once been deeply in love. Claire arrives with a sinister menage. She soon announces that she has come for revenge on her onetime sweetheart, offering a million marks for his life. In the nightmarish climax Schell's friends sacrifice him to their greed.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781583421567
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Play Strindberg written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher :
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 : 022653054X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Assignment written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism. F.’s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Dürrenmatt’s fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee’s elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature’s masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. “The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . As the novella builds to its horripilating climax, we realize the extent to which all values have thereby been inverted. The Assignment is a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.”—New York Times Book Review “His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind’s most fiendish crimes.”—Chicago Tribune “A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.”—Village Voice
Author : Max Frisch
Publisher : Swiss List
ISBN 13 : 9781906497910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Correspondence written by Max Frisch and published by Swiss List. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt are not only two of the most esteemed Swiss writers of the twentieth century, but arguably two of the most important European writers since World War II. The remarkable letters gathered here document their unique, unlikely, and extraordinary friendship. This collection of correspondence offers a picture of two temperaments that could not have been more different. As their letters show, at first their friendship was tentative, both critical and respectful, as one might imagine of two contemporary literary giants. Then, under the pressure of their increasing fame, Frisch and Dürrenmatt's letters became more teasing in spirit and began to carry a noted undertone of irony. Finally, perhaps inevitably, the friendship became seriously endangered and failed. Available in English for the first time, this collection includes an introduction by Peter Rüedi that places the letters within the context of the authors' lives and works, as well as the larger historical events of the time. Detailed notes, a chronology, photographs, and facsimiles of the original letters complete the book, which will be engaging reading for admirers of Frisch and Dürrenmatt as well as fans of modern German writing in general.
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.
