The Visit
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0394172396
ISBN 13
9780394172392
Category
Plays
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Publication Year
1962
Publisher
Pages
109
Description
Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: “I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place “somewhere in Central Europe” and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
3
