The Visit
A Tragicomedy
$24.00
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
30 September 1973
Summary
The English translation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1956 Swiss-German play, a macabre and darkly comic parable of greed and power.
In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain—in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224009140 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224009141 |
| Author: | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 1973 |
| Weight: | 105g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Jonathan Cape |
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About The Author
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born on 5 January 1921 in the Emmental, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant pastor. At the age of 26, his first work, It Is Written, premiered to great controversy, and he went on to write many successful and challenging plays, including Romulus the Great and The Physicists. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. He wrote avant-garde dramas, satire and philosophical crime novels and he was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Dürrenmatt died from heart failure in Neuchâtel in 1990, aged 69.
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