Performances

Brian Friel

ISBN 10: 0571227937 / ISBN 13: 9780571227938

Published by Faber and Faber, 2003

About this Item

Very nice, apparently unread 10th edition copy, printed in (© 2003 by Brian Friel), pocket book, softcover, the 34 pages are intact, no text annotations, damage or soiling, 1 mark on the title page, there are only slight signs of use/age, language: English. Brian Friel s new one-hour-play, premiered at the Gate Theatre Dublin, in 2003»His best plays all have a quality of poetry, not in the sense of beautiful phrases, but in the way words and action echo one another like phrases in music. Basically for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry (.)« (quote from the back cover) For more information please see photos. Shipping from Germany, shipping fees apply. (The shipping fees are adjusted to the current shipping price.) Please pay in advance for books and offers (book price + postage) over 10 Euros, thank you. // Sehr gutes, nahezu neuwertiges Exemplar der 10. Auflage, Taschenbuch / Softcover, 34 Seiten in fester Bindung, keine Textanstreichungen, Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, nur minimale, kaum sichtbare Gebrauchsspuren und ein Eintrag auf der Titelseite, sehr gut als Geschenkbuch geeignet, Sprache: Englisch. Näheres siehe Fotos. Bitte um Vorkasse bei Angeboten (Buchpreis + Versandkosten) ab 10 Euro, vielen Dank! Die angezeigten pauschalen Portokosten ins Ausland werden den jeweiligen aktuellen Versandpreisen je nach Gewicht der Sendung angepasst.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performances
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571227937
• ISBN 13: 9780571227938
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 5. oder spätere Auflage
• Condition: Wie neu
• Seller catalogs:
  • Musik & Noten
  • Bühne & Theater
  • Englisch

About this title

Synopsis

"In 1928, at the age of seventy-four and just a few months before he died, Leos Janacek completed his String Quartet No. 2. He called it Intimate Letters. Brian Friel's play through which this quartet is woven, centres on the circumstances surrounding its composition and specifically on the effect of Janacek's relationship with Kamila Stosslova." By reflecting on the composer's intoxication with a married woman nearly forty years his junior, to whom he wrote over seven hundred letters, Friel considers the interaction between that passion and Janacek's final surge of creative energy; the relationship between the private life and the public work; and the artist's insistence - or delusion? - that he chose, in Yeats's phrase, the perfection of the work.

About the Author

Brian Friel was born in County Tyrone in 1929. He died in County Donegal on 2 October 2015.