| Max Frisch: Three Plays Contributor(s): Frisch, Max (Author), Bullock, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1553800001 ISBN-13: 9781553800002 Publisher: Ronsdale Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2002 Annotation: Santa Cruz, Now They're Singing Again and Rip Van Winkle (staged and published in their original German in the 1940s) are here given their definitive translation into English by Michael Bullock. Two of the plays appear in this volume for the first time in English. Along with Jean Paul Sartre and Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, the great Swiss playwright and novelist, is one of the pre-eminent European thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. These three plays show Frisch at his most innovative in exploring the challenges posed by modernity to the creation of an authentic self. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General |
| Dewey: 832.912 |
| LCCN: 2004445368 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.04" (0.86 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drama. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. The three plays collected in this volume--Santa Cruz, Now They're Singing Again, and Rip van Winkle--were the first of Max Frisch's dramatic works to reach the public. Now for the first time they appear in English, thanks to the translation skills of Michael Bullock. These three plays are of special interest both to students of modern drama and admirers of Frisch. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frisch, Max: - Michael Bullock, himself a novelist and poet, was for many years the official translator of Max Frisch. His translations of books and plays from French and German now number close to 200 and have received many awards. |