{"product_id":"the-visit-a-tragicomedy-paperback","title":"The Visit: A Tragicomedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFriedrich Durrenmatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoel Agee\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich D rrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. 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. D rrenmatt once wrote of himself: \"I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Visit\u003c\/i\u003e is a consummate, alarming D rrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. 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. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. D rrenmatt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Durrenmatt was born in Switzerland in 1921 and has long been considered one of the world's leading German-language playwrights. His plays have received international acclaim, with \u003ci\u003eThe Visit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomulus the Great\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Physicists\u003c\/i\u003e having been performed on Broadway and in major capitals throughout the world. Dürrenmatt's concerns are timeless, but they are also the product of his Swiss vantage during the cold war: his key plays explore such themes as guilt by passivity, the refusal of responsibility, greed and political decay, and the tension between justice and freedom. Durrenmatt died in December 1990. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoel Agee is the author of two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eTwelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn The House Of My Fear\u003c\/i\u003e. His translations of Heinrich von Kleist's \u003ci\u003ePenthesilea\u003c\/i\u003e and Hans Erich Nossack's \u003ci\u003eDer Untergang\u003c\/i\u003e won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Lois Roth Prize of the Modern Language Association, respectively. In 2007 he was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and received the Alta National Translation for his translation of the Selected Writings of Friedrich Dürrenmatt.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891480916070,"sku":"9780802144263","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NzFrMDF1MU1YNUsxRU1NREpVUDFJUT09.webp?v=1772881516","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-visit-a-tragicomedy-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}