The Visit
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Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt 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. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802130662 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 07 Jan 1994 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 112 |
Weight: | 136g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 133mm |
Spine width: | 8mm |