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Friedrich Durrenmatt (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays
Redaktion: Kenneth J. Northcott, Northcott / Übersetzer: Joel Agee, Agee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These translations of Friedrich Durrenmatt s essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (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, Durrenmatt becomes available again in all his brilliance to the English-speaking world. Durrenmatt 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 Durrenmatt 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 third volume of Selected Writings 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. Durrenmatt 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226531212
• Artikelnr.: 50407090

Autorenporträt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) was born in the village of Konolfingen, near Berne, Switzerland. He wrote prolifically during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, taking particular interest in human rights and the preservation of Israel. He is the author of numerous books published by the University of Chicago Press, including The Pledge.