The Man Outside: Play & stories

The Man Outside: Play & stories

This collection of Borchertâ€™s most important prose, translated by A. D. Porter with an Introduction by Stephen Spender, includes the complete text of the title play, as well as 39 stories and assorted pieces that comprise much of the authorâ€™s output during the two short, fever-ridden years in which he wrote, complemented by Kay Boyleâ€™s appreciative Foreword.
Wolfgang Borchert died in 1947â€“â€“the twenty-six-year-old victim of a malaria-like fever contracted during World War II. This was just one day after the premier of his play,Â The Man Outside, which caused an immediate furor throughout his native Germany with its youthful, indeed revolutionary, vision against war and the dehumanizing effects of the police state. In a very real sense, Borchert was both the moral and physical victim of the Third Reich and the Nazi war machine. As a Wehrmacht conscript, he twice served on the Russian front, where he was wounded, and twice was imprisoned for his outspokenness. His voice speaks plainly and powerfully from out of the warâ€™s carnage all the more poignantly for its being cut short at so young an age.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0811200116
ReleaseDate 1971-01-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811200110

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