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About the Author
Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was a German playwright, dramatist, visual artist, filmmaker, and novelist. His works include The Aesthetics of Resistance and The Shadow of the Coachman's Body. He is best known in the US for his play Marat/Sade: Peter Brook's production received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966. His documentary drama The Investigation, which recreates the trial of Auschwitz concentration camp guards, was produced on American television in the 1960s. He was awarded the Georg Buchner Prize after his death in 1982. Rosmarie Waldrop, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are The Nick of Time, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Driven to Abstraction. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts of Letters, and is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. For fifty-six years, she and her husband Keith Waldrop ran one of the country's most vibrant experimental poetry presses, Burning Deck, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Reviews
"Staggering ambition! Extraordinary richness." -- Susan Sontag
"Exhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original." -- Bookforum
"Peter Weiss has, of course, achieved international celebrity through his plays and dramatic documentaries. But in the long run it may well be that his earlier prose writings will be recognized as his finest work." -- George Steiner
Book Information
ISBN 9780811231619
Author Peter Weiss
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 95g
Dimensions(mm) 185mm * 114mm * 8mm