by Friedrich Durrenmatt · Jonathan Cape · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780224009140
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«The Visit» is the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published by Jonathan Cape in paperback (109 pages, in English).
Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a terrible deal: she will restore prosperity to the town if the townspeople kill the man who abandoned her. The community, seduced by money, gradually yields to corruption in a tragicomedy that satirizes greed, loyalty, and double standards.
Original title: «Der Besuch der alten Dame» (1956). The English version is translated by Patrick Bowles. The play won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play in 1959.
For fans of twentieth-century theatre and literature students; it is a common reading in schools.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire. Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten, a group of left-wing Swiss writers who convened regularly at a restaurant in the city of Olten.
