by Georg Büchner · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150077337
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«Woyzeck / Leonce und Lena» is the theatrical volume by Georg Büchner containing Woyzeck and Leonce und Lena, published by Reclam in paperback (64 pages, in German).
It brings together two works by Georg Büchner: Woyzeck, a fragmentary drama about a humiliated soldier who serves a captain and submits to medical experiments until a tragic end; and Leonce und Lena, a Lustspiel or comedy of a lighter tone. Both reveal marginalization, hopelessness and criticism of a society that crushes the individual.
No. 7733 in the Reclams Universal-Bibliothek collection. Woyzeck is a dramatic fragment published posthumously in 1879, after the death of Georg Büchner (1813-1837).
Suitable for students of German literature and for readers of classical theater interested in the German original.
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His literary achievements, though limited by his death at age 23, are generally held in great esteem in Germany. Despite his brief career, his plays profoundly influenced naturalism, expressionism, and later developments in European theater.
