The Visit

Informationen zum Autor Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born on 5 January 1921 in the Emmental! Switzerland! the son of a Protestant pastor. At the age of 26! his first work! It Is Written ! premiered to great controversy! and he went on to write many successful and challenging plays! including Romulus the Great and The Physicists. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. He wrote avant-garde dramas! satire and philosophical crime novels and he was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Dürrenmatt died from heart failure in Neuchâtel in 1990! aged 69. Zusammenfassung In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her.

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• Autori: Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• Editore: JONATHAN CAPE
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.08.1973
• EAN: 9780224009140
• ISBN: 978-0-224-00914-0
• Pagine: 112
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Schweizer SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Satire, Swissness, Fiction in translation