Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2006
336 pages
978-0-14-193549-2 (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
File size
1,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-193549-2 (9780141935492)
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Georg Buchner
Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
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09/1993
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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.
