The Visit: A Tragicomedy Durrenmatt FriedrichPaperback
The Visit: A Tragicomedy Durrenmatt FriedrichPaperback Friedrich Durrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. In this ALTA National Translation Award-winning new…
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The Visit: A Tragicomedy Durrenmatt FriedrichPaperback
Friedrich Durrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. In this ALTA National Translation Award-winning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth-century theater. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters.
The play takes place "somewhere in Central Europe" and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. Durrenmatt once wrote of himself: "I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Durrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder.
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