Drrenmatt: Reinterpretation in Retrospect

(Hardback)

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This book discusses all of Drrenmatt's major works - novels, stories, radio-plays, stage-plays, essays, lectures, speeches and artworks - and places him in context as a major contributor to the European cultural scene. The genesis and fortunes of each work are fully charted and reinterpreted, with lavish quotations from the original texts, in light of the author's 40-year research into Drrenmatt's art.

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'Another splendidly-produced Berg publication, which serves the cause of Germanistik well.' German Teaching

Author Bio

Kenneth S. Whitton has published widely on German literature and vocal German music. He is Professor of European Cultural Studies and German in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bradford.