Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings

Buchner, Georg

ISBN 10: 0140445862 / ISBN 13: 9780140445862

Published by Penguin Classics, 1994

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Synopsis:

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 Büchner's letters and philosophical writings.

About the Author: When he died in 1837, just as Woyzeck (later turned into an opera by modernist Allan Berg) was nearing completion, Georg Büchner was not yet twenty-four years old. It would be almost 60 years before the first of Büchner'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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket