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Shooting rats, other plays and poems / Peter Turrini ; translated and with an afterword by Richard Dixon.
- Title
- Shooting rats, other plays and poems / Peter Turrini ; translated and with an afterword by Richard Dixon.
- Author
- Turrini, Peter
- Publication
- Riverside, CA : Ariadne Press, 1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Dixon, Richard, 1953-
- Description
- 211 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This volume contains some of the more controversial and personal works produced by Peter Turrini, who has come to be recognized today as one of the leading Austrian dramatists. His first drama, Shooting Rats, was written in 1967, when Turrini, fed up with life as an advertising copy editor, fled into "exile" on an isolated Greek island. The play, with its theme of alienation from the consumer society, was an instant success and has since appeared on stages throughout Europe. Infanticide (1972) continues the theme of alienation, intensified to the point of murder. Turrini explores the heart of an unfortunate young woman who paradoxically is driven to kill her infant child in order to feel like a human being. In Death and the Devil (1990) Turrini confronts his audience with the most controversial of his plays. A disillusioned priest sets out on a journey, seeking to discover Sin. His self-crucifixion and death end the quest in a highly symbolic and for some, scandalous fashion.
- The final play, The Siege of Vienna (1995), like a number of his other dramas, treats contemporary social conditions in Austria. The poems of A Few Steps Back (1980) are much more personal than Turrini's dramas. They show the man behind the writer and reveal the autobiographical element that runs through all of the writings of this socially engaged author.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English. 1996.
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series.
- Alternative Title
- Works. 1996.
- Subject
- Turrini, Peter > Translations into English
- Genre/Form
- poetry.
- Drama
- Poetry
- Translations
- Théâtre.
- Poésie.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Shooting Rats -- Infanticide -- Death and the Devil -- The Siege of Vienna -- A Few Steps Back -- Afterword / Richard Dixon.
- ISBN
- 0929497988
- LCCN
- ^^^95050543^
- OCLC
- 33862379
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library