
Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
Georg Buchner(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 13. September 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-14-044586-2 (ISBN)
Description
Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Buechner's letters and philosophical writings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-044586-2 (9780140445862)
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Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
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Person
When he died in 1837, just as Woyzeck (later turned into an opera by modernist Allan Berg) was nearing completion, Georg Buechner was not yet twenty-four years old. It would be almost 60 years before the first of Buechner's plays Leonce and Lena was performed before a German audience--and almost 100 years before his plays were translated into English. His plays have have grown more important and more relevant with the passage of time. Today, he is considered a forerunner of both naturalism and expressionism.
Content
Danton's death; Leonce and Lena; Woyzeck; Lenz; the Hessian messenger; on cranial nerves; selected letters.