The Man Outside

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New Directions Publishing, 1971 - 270 páginas
Wolfgang Borchert died in 1947--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, 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 war's carnage all the more poignantly for its being cut short at so young an age.
 

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The Dandelion
7
The Crows Fly Home at Night
19
Conversation over the Roofs
27
Generation without Farewell
39
Done with Done with
46
Hamburg
53
The Elbe
72
The Skittle Alley
140
My Paleface Brother
148
The Cat was Frozen in the Snow
154
Radi
160
The Writer
237
From the Other Side to the Other Side
249
The Bread
255
Stories from a Primer
265
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asked BARABBAS Bill Brook Blankenese blue Borchert bread breast breath Breslau Christmas carols cigarette cold COLONEL Corporal Beckmann cuckoo d'you dandelion dark dead dear death door dream Elbe everything eyes face fear fingers FRAU KRAMER front Germany girl glasses grey grinned half past Hamburg hear heart Herr Fischer infantree lamp laugh laughter left right left legs Lehrter Strasse live lonely looked morning mother mouth Mozart murder never night numbers organ-grinder pale perhaps Persil ping pang play right left right road roadsweeper round Russia schnaps scream Second Lieutenant Fischer sergeant shouted shut Siberia sings sitting sleep smell snow softly soldier Stalingrad standing stood street suddenly there's thing Thithyphuth thought thousand Timm tram uncle upidee voice Voronezh walked wall whispered window Wolfgang Borchert woman xylophone yellow zacker

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Sobre el autor (1971)

Wolfgang Borchert was a dramatist who grew up under the Nazi regime. During World War II he was imprisoned and sentenced to death for what was considered his defeatist attitude. He died at the age of 26, the night before the Hamburg premiere of his play The Outsider (The Man Outside). Surrealistic in technique, the play concerns the return of a maimed German prisoner of war who finds everything destroyed and all hope shattered. The efforts of the hero of the play to make a place for himself end in failure. The Outsider remains important because it is an excellent drama. It is the most complete expression of the disillusionment of the youth of postwar Germany with the system that had ruined their country and their own best years. It is the only really successful recreation of the World War II art form known as Expressionsim. Borchert died in 1947.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloThe Man Outside
Volumen 319 de A New Directions book
Paperback Revised Edition
AutorWolfgang Borchert
Ediciónrevisada
EditorNew Directions Publishing, 1971
ISBN0811200116, 9780811200110
N.º de páginas270 páginas
  
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