Product details
ISBN
9781847494498
Published
2015-02-15
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd; Alma Classics
Weight
81 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
128 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
98
Author
Translated by
Biographical note
Famous for his plays, such as Danton’s Death and Woyzeck, Georg Büchner (1813–37) made a major contribution to German literature in his brief life, tragically cut short by typhus.A study of schizophrenia whose style anticipates Bernhard and Beckett.
The Guardian
A harbinger of European modernism.
The New Yorker
Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s nineteen-day stay in Waldersbach in 1778, describing his wanderings around the mountainous surroundings and his worsening fits of madness, eventually culminating in his removal, under guard, to Strasbourg.
Valued both as a chilling exploration of paranoid schizophrenia and an influential forerunner of literary modernism, this existential drama boasts a prose style startlingly ahead of its time.
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Set against the strikingly beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, this book tells the tale of a real-life writer's nineteen-day stay in Waldersbach in 1778. It describes his wanderings around the mountainous surroundings and his worsening fits of madness, eventually culminating in his removal, under guard, to Strasbourg.
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Product details
ISBN
9781847494498
Published
2015-02-15
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd; Alma Classics
Weight
81 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
128 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
98
Author
Translated by