Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
Also included are selections from B chner's letters and philosophical writings. 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 B chner's letters and philosophical writings.
When he died in 1837, just as Woyzeck (later turned into an opera by modernist Allan Berg) was nearing completion, Georg B chner was not yet twenty-four years old. It would be almost 60 years before the first of B chner'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.
Author: Georg Buchner
Format: Paperback, 336 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 247 g
Published: 1993, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Drama Texts, Plays & Screenplays
Also included are selections from B chner's letters and philosophical writings. 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 B chner's letters and philosophical writings.
When he died in 1837, just as Woyzeck (later turned into an opera by modernist Allan Berg) was nearing completion, Georg B chner was not yet twenty-four years old. It would be almost 60 years before the first of B chner'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.