- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (20 Nov 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571141064
- ISBN-13: 978-0571141067
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12 x 0.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,493,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As the play opens, she is trying to sell her body to an anatomical institute.
About the Author
Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon and The Talking Cure. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, von Horváth, Chekhov and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). His television work includes adaptations of The History Man and Hotel du Lac. His screenplays include The Honorary Consul, The Good Father, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed, and most recently A Dangerous Method, based on his play The Talking Cure.
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Von Horvath is a great Austrian writer of the 1920ies and 30ies. The book was written in 1937 and deals with moral decay in a small German or Austrian town during the early days of National Socialism. This might give the impression that the story is all gloomy. True its political connotations are dark, but the book is mainly an invitation to live by high ethical standards and, also, a refreshing appeal to be everything but Philistine. Last but in no way least it is a touching story of the turn-around in a man's relationship with God.
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