Selected Essays

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Selected Essays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 March 2022
Pages
224
ISBN
9780857427113

Selected Essays

Friedrich Durrenmatt

In this volume, the full range of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s interests in arts and letters - and their relationships to each other-becomes evident. In one section, a cluster of essays on the theatre illuminates his idiosyncratic dramaturgical theories, drawing from Attic comedy to Schiller, Brecht and professional wrestling. In another, his philosophical essays mingle his passionate reflections on ethical and political questions with his sceptical forays into metaphysics. And in autobiographical pieces such as ‘Vallon de l'Ermitage’, he offers an intimate look at his ‘web of time’ - the places where he travelled and the people with whom he lived and worked. Suffused with melancholy, flashes of tenderness and his inimitable sense of the grotesque and absurd, these essays provide a compelling look at Durrenmatt’s prodigious strength as a writer of non-fiction.

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