Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings

by Buchner, Georg

• ISBN13: 9780140445862
• ISBN10: 0140445862
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings.

Author Biography

When he died in 1837, just as Woyzeck (later turned into an opera by modernist Allan Berg) was nearing completion, Georg Büchner was not yet twenty-four years old. It would be almost 60 years before the first of Büchner's plays Leonce and Lena was performed before a German audience--and almost 100 years before his plays were translated into English. His plays have have grown more important and more relevant with the passage of time. Today, he is considered a forerunner of both naturalism and expressionism.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
Chronology	xxii
Danton's Death	1	(74)
Leonce and Lena	75	(34)
Woyzeck	109	(30)
Lenz	139	(26)
The Hessian Messenger	165	(16)
On Cranial Nerves	181	(6)
Selected Letters	187	(116)
Notes and Background to Texts
Danton's Death	209	(29)
Leonce and Lena	238	(9)
Woyzeck	247	(18)
Lenz	265	(8)
The Hessian Messenger	273	(11)
On Cranial Nerves	284	(7)
Selected Letters	291	(12)
Select Bibliography	303