The Complete Plays and Lenz

Informationen zum Autor When he died in 1837, just as Woyzeck (later turned into an opera by modernist Allan Berg) was nearing completion, Georg Büchner was not yet twenty-four years old. It would be almost 60 years before the first of Büchner's plays Leonce and Lena was performed before a German audience--and almost 100 years before his plays were translated into English. His plays have have grown more important and more relevant with the passage of time. Today, he is considered a forerunner of both naturalism and expressionism. Klappentext Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings. Zusammenfassung Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Complete Plays, Lenz and Other WritingsPreface Introduction Chronology Danton's Death Leonce and Lena Woyzeck Lenz The Hessian Messenger On Cranial Nerves Selected Letters Notes and Background to Texts: Danton's Death Leonce and Lena Woyzeck Lenz The Hessian Messenger On Cranial Nerves Selected Letters Select Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Georg Buchner, George Buchner, John Reddick
• Assisted by: John Reddick (Editor), John Reddick (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.1993
• EAN: 9780140445862
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044586-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Classic fiction, Literary essays