The Visit

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. During the years of the cold war, Sartre, Camus, arguably only Beckett, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters.

Friedrich dürrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. 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.

. Dürrenmatt 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. Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: “i can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness, horror, ” and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, and vertigo.

The visit A Tragicomedy.

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, the less is understood, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.

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A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story.


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