Ödön Von Horváth

The Belle Vue (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Mcleish, Kenneth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Horváth's setting for this black political farce is a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the 1920s where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac - wealthy and despotic. Under her sole occupancy the hotel is falling apart and sliding even deeper into decadence. There is no future and no hope until a young woman arrives with a fortune to spend. What follows is a riot of confusion and mistaken identities, satirising the despair and futility of a continent poised on the brink of fascism.

Horváth (1901-1938) was accidentally killed in Paris after fleeing from the Nazis. The Belle Vue, one of 16 plays, was not performed until 1969. This translation marked the British premiere, in a production by the Actors Touring Company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783192816
• Artikelnr.: 44175771

Autorenporträt

Ödön von Horváth