The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy

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UPC:
9780802130662
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
1/7/1994
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Language:
english,german
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Drrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness, and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Drrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place somewhere in Central Europe and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Drrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.