![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1980"-Title page versoĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:07:07 Associated-names Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Agee, Joel Dürrenmatt, Friedrich. "Originally published in Switzerland under the title Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit), published by Verlag der Arche, Zürich 1956 and revised version. Durrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed and confronts the perennial questions of honor, loyalty, and community."-Publisher description But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. The play takes place "somewhere in Central Europe" and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. Durrenmatt once wrote of himself: "I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Durrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. In this ALTA National Translation Award-winning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth-century theater. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. "Friedrich Durrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. ![]()
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