The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy

by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Other authorsPatrick Bowles
Paperback, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

832.914

Publication

Grove Press (1994), Paperback, 109 pages

Description

A millionairess returns to her home town to seek revenge on a man who wronged her in her youth.

User reviews

LibraryThing member BLyda97112
Great play. I performed this in college, and while the acting edition uses Maurice Valency's translation, I actually prefer this one. Patrick Bowles' faithful and sensitive translation from the original German provides a more dramatic voice for this outstanding Swiss play.
LibraryThing member jonfaith
There’s a lurid whisper of dread in The Visit. Elements of Bergman’s Summer With Monika find themselves in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. We only need the onion choppers from Die Blechtrommel.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this play but was pleasantly surprised. The author has a measured
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grasp of a simple proud populace concealing an atrocity. The hypocrisy of station exculpates but only to a degree.
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Awards

Tony Award (Nominee — Play — 1959)
Outer Critics Circle Award (Winner — Play — 1958-1959)

Language

Original publication date

1956

Physical description

109 p.; 8.06 inches

ISBN

0802130666 / 9780802130662
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