Understanding Friedrich Dürrenmatt /

This introductory volume explores the playwright's chaotic universe, where God has retreated beyond the stars and where blind chance is the real prime mover, justice is corruptible, ideologies useless, and tragedy no longer possible. Yet despite the overriding pessimism of Durrenmatt's Wel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crockett, Roger A. (Roger Alan), 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Colección:Understanding modern European and Latin American literature.
Temas:
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich > Criticism and interpretation.
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
DRAMA > Continental European.
Germanic Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biography
  • Earliest prose and dramatic works
  • The turn to comedy
  • Three detective stories
  • Two plays about ideologies and God's remoteness
  • The radio plays
  • Consolation from Dürrenmatt
  • The corruption of justice
  • Of heroism, failure, and resignation
  • Improbable grace
  • The adaptations
  • Four that failed: the late plays
  • The prose of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Conclusion.

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