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Pains of Youth (Paperback, Main)
Martin Crimp; Originally written by Ferdinand Bruckner
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You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be
mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block.
You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of
youth's incredible potential. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six
sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of
a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets
about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half
an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned
aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene.
Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her. Bourgeois
existence or suicide. There are no other choices. Vienna, 1923. A
discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their
sickness and do their best to destroy it. A shocking, erotically
charged play by Austrian writer Ferdinand Bruckner, presented in a
compelling new version by Martin Crimp.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Von Der Verheissung Des Krieges Und Den Forderungen An Den
Frieden: Morgenrote Der Sozialitat Ferdinand Bruckner G. Muller,
1915 History; Military; World War I; History / Military / World War
I; War; World War, 1914-1918
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
If a theater-goer in Weimar Berlin were asked to name the best
living German playwright, the answer would not be Bertolt Brecht or
Georg Kaiser or Arnolt Bronnen. It would be Ferdinand Bruckner. And
if asked, who is this Bruckner?, the Berliner would be at a loss to
give you any information. In the late 1920s, the first two plays
attributed to Bruckner, Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals, were
"hot tickets," but only gradually was the pseudonymous author
identified. Bruckner continues to be an understudied figure in the
Weimar figure, and this updated translation of two of his most
well-known plays will be the definitive version for scholars and
readers interested in better understanding his legacy. Youth Is a
Sickness (1924) is an important document of the "lost generation"
that grew up during the first World War, born in the aftermath of
cataclysm, devoid of hope and ideals, lost in sex and drugs. If
Youth is a compact, claustrophobic study in juvenile derangement,
Criminals (1926) is a panoramic survey of social interaction and
legal injustice in the Weimar Republic. Its format is highly
original: a three-story apartment building and a Palace of Justice
with four courtrooms, in which simultaneous action allows for
ironic comment on the various cases. The central example is a
murder case in which fate allows a slick "lady's man" to go to the
gallows. Others involve homosexual blackmail (the first
commercially successful play to be so explicit), a failed double
suicide, theft, and abortion. With an introduction and annotation
by renowned theater and German scholar, Lawrence Senelick, these
two plays will position Bruckner as a prime example of what we now
call a "public intellectual," a man whose life was devoted to
reflecting on the fate of Germany, humane values, and the past,
present, and future of a troubled century. Like many of his
contemporaries, he was excited by the possibility of the stage to
address issues of war and peace, social and political problems, and
the fate of contemporary youth with its lack of ideal and eternal
nostalgia.
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