The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising - Couverture souple

Grass, Gunter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140481206 ISBN 13 : 9780140481204

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1972

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his first full-length play, Günter Grass takes Bertolt Brecht, the foremost modern German dramatist, as his key figure. On 17 June, 1953, the workers in East Germany rise in rebellion against oppressive measures, but their revolt lacks a voice and a leader. In the East German theatre of which he is the director, the famed Communist poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht (named 'the boss' in the play), is shown rehearsing his adaption of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The revolution spills over into the stage happenings as a workers' delegation requests that 'the Boss' lend the authority of his voice and fame to their demands for justice and freedom. The intellectual is shown in a tragic dilemma: reasoning keeps him from active commitment until it is too late. He becomes guilty of betraying the workers and his own self.

Biographie de l'auteur

Günter Grass (1927–2015) was Germany’s most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass’s first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0140481206
• ISBN 13: 9780140481204
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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