
Lenz
101-Page series
Georg Buechner(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Published on 15. February 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-84749-449-8 (ISBN)
Description
Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz's nineteen-day stay in Waldersbach in 1778, describing his wanderings around the mountainous surroundings and his worsening fits of madness, eventually culminating in his removal, under guard, to Strasbourg.
Valued both as a chilling exploration of paranoid schizophrenia and an influential forerunner of literary modernism, this existential drama boasts a prose style startlingly ahead of its time.
Valued both as a chilling exploration of paranoid schizophrenia and an influential forerunner of literary modernism, this existential drama boasts a prose style startlingly ahead of its time.
Reviews / Votes
A study of schizophrenia whose style anticipates Bernhard and Beckett. * The Guardian * A harbinger of European modernism. * The New Yorker *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Weight
81 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-449-8 (9781847494498)
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Famous for his plays, such as Danton's Death and Woyzeck, Georg Buechner (1813-37) made a major contribution to German literature in his brief life, tragically cut short by typhus.