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The ride across Lake Constance and other plays

Title
The ride across Lake Constance and other plays / Peter Handke ; translated by Michael Roloff in collaboration with Karl Weber.
Author
Handke, Peter
Publication
  • New York : Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
  • ©1976

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Additional Authors
  • Roloff, Michael
  • Weber, Karl
Description
258 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's career. The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language (dialogue) and objects (props) operate in the skewed world of the stage. Therein it anticipates They Are Dying Out, the second full-length play in this volume. In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's plays, They Are Dying Out presents one of his most fascinating protagonists, Quitt, a businessman who first induces a group of colleagues to set up a monopoly and then torpedoes the scheme. The four short plays that round out the book--Prophecy, Calling for Help, Quodlibet, and My Foot My Tutor--were written before The Ride Across Lake Constance and show Handke moving from the experimental mode of his early work toward the richness and complexity that have marked him as the most important dramatist since Becket."--Publisher description.
Uniform Title
Plays. Selections. English
Alternative Title
Plays.
Subject
  • Handke, Peter > Translations into English
  • Handke, Peter
Genre/Form
  • Drama.
  • Translations.
Note
  • "Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature"--Cover
Contents
Prophecy -- Calling for help -- My foot my tutor -- Quodlibet -- The ride across Lake Constance -- They are dying out.
Call Number
JFD 22-836
ISBN
  • 9781250767332
  • 1250767334
OCLC
1230501432
Author
Handke, Peter, author.
Title
The ride across Lake Constance and other plays / Peter Handke ; translated by Michael Roloff in collaboration with Karl Weber.
Publisher
New York : Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Copyright Date
©1976
Edition
First Picador paperback edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Austrians
Men
Added Author
Roloff, Michael, translator.
Weber, Karl, translator.
Research Call Number
JFD 22-836
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