The Threepenny Opera - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0394174720 ISBN 13 : 9780394174723

Synopsis

Book by Bertolt Brecht

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, and the song "Mack the Knife" became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Nadine Gordimer is the author of eleven previous novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394174720
• ISBN 13: 9780394174723
• Reliure: Poche
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible