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# Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Buchner's plays: his complete works
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2022*

Many decades before Emile Zola codified what naturalism in theatre and in prose was and should be, and his German contemporaries Otto Brahm and Gerhart Hauptmann helped define and illustrate this newly ascendant dramatic "-ism", as well as many decades before the emergence-or even the formulation, of symbolism, surrealism and expressionism, there arose the works of a momentarily forgotten genius on the German stage, whose plays, few in number but powerful, if ambiguous in performance, still merit appreciative audiences. This genius was Georg Buchner (1813-1837), who before his early death at 23, wrote three plays that provided posterity with a dramatic exit from the previously dominant Romantic idealism of Schiller, Goethe, and Hegel. It would take many years following his premature death from typhus in 1837, even many decades, for Buchner's plays to receive the appreciation, understanding and performances they deserved, but today he is generally viewed as one of the founders of the modern Western stage. Two of his plays, "Danton's Death" (1835), and "Woyzeck" (1836/7) are superior to a great many plays written and performed today, and they will doubtless be performed for many decades to come. John Reddick, Buchner's translator, has here provided not only splendid versions of these two great plays, but Buchner's remaining two fictional works, the farce "Leonce and Lena"; and "Lenz", the first, startling description of schizophrenia; as well as his early revolutionary proclamation, "The Hessian Messenger"; the introduction to a lecture he gave "On Cranial Nerves" in late 1836 in Zurich; and a selection of his letters. "Woyzeck" and "Danton's Death" clearly are the highlights of this translation ("Danton's Death", my own favorite work of his, anticipates the remarkable many-sided spectacle treating the French Revolution and truth, "Marat-Sade" from 1964.) but for one's first acquaintance with this nearly-forgotten pioneer of the modern stage, one can not do better than read this anthology.

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    Excellent and comprehensive
  

*by D***C on Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2012*

I bought the Kindle edition of this, primarily for "Woyzeck." The editor's notes are comprehensive, even exhaustive, and much more illuminating than those of other editions I've looked at. The prefatory material (biographical background, etc) is equally fascinating and thought-provoking. Buchner was a genius, as this volume handily proves. I'm looking forward to reading the letters and non-dramatic writings (especially "The Hessian Messenger") all of which are included here. I'm still looking for a variorum edition of "Woyzeck" -- I very much want to see the differences between the four manuscripts. I had hoped to find that here; while I'm disappointed in that one respect, it seems a small issue when considering how satisfied I am overall with this book.

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*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014*

Item arrived in excellent condition, exactly as described, on time.I bought this for a class and didn't think much of it.Great read; has lots of annotations that are very thorough, which helps a great deal. I didn't find this too difficult of a read (English is my third language and I generally have a little bit of trouble with texts like these) and enjoyed it much more than I'd expected.

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