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Biography - A Game

Anglais · Livre de poche

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A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could--or would--change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kürmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane--He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, Kürmann finds himself inexorably trapped in the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, Kürmann's life game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. The play's central idea--that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities--is brilliantly captured in Biography's dramaturgical form, setting up a theatre rehearsal as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life.
Frisch's own revised, dramatically heightened version of his play celebrates not only the theatre as a form of self-expression but also the human condition in all its potential and limitations as it showcases both comic and tragic outcomes that define all our lives.


A propos de l'auteur










Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature, achieving fame as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. His works include Andorra and Man in the Holocene.


Détails du produit

Auteurs Birgit Schreyer Duarte, Max Frisch
Collaboration Birgit Schreyer Duarte (Traduction)
Edition Seagull Books
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 06.07.2023
 
EAN 9781803092157
ISBN 978-1-80309-215-7
Pages 124
Dimensions 127 mm x 201 mm x 10 mm
Poids 136 g
Thème The Seagull Library of German
Catégorie Littérature > Poésie, théâtre

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