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An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss (Hardcover)
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An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A comprehensive introduction to the works and vision of the German
writer, director, and political activist. The plays and prose works
of the German writer, director, and political activist Peter Weiss
(1916-1982) were immensely influential in the shaping of European
Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century. Combining
exploratory aesthetic openness with an uncompromising ethical
drive, Weiss's literary works, especially the plays Marat/Sade
(1964), The Investigation (1968), and Hoelderlin (1971), as well as
the novel The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975-81) continue to
provide vital points of reference for any discussion of culture and
politics in our times. Berwald's study serves as a comprehensive
introduction to Weiss's work and vision. The introductory chapter
outlines Weiss's life and work in exile. Three chapters provide
detailed discussions of Weiss's theater work, from his early
grotesque plays and the documentary dramas from the 1960s that
address Auschwitz, Angola, and Vietnam, to his most complex plays
in which intellectuals are staged as outsiders. The subsequent four
chapters discuss Weiss's prose works, which include his
autobiographical novels from the early 1960s, essays and notebooks
on art and politics, and his summum opus, The Aesthetics of
Resistance. Olaf Berwald is Professor of German and Chair of the
Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University.
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