Complete Works and Letters: Georg Buchner

by Hinderer, Walter; Schmidt, Henry J.; Buchner, Georg

• ISBN13: 9780826403018
• ISBN10: 0826403018
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The works of Georg Buchner consists of only a few hundred pages written by a man who died in 1837 at the age of twenty-three, yet its influence on 20th-century literature can hardly be exaggerated. Particularly his drama, a century before Brecht, is considered an important precursor of the major trends in drama today. This edition includes the plays Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, a reconstruction and synopsis of Woyzeck, the novella Lenz, the political essay The Hessian Messenger, and all the surviving letters.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Chronology	p. 39
The Hessian Messenger	p. 41
Notes	p. 53
Danton's Death	p. 57
Glossary	p. 124
Notes	p. 136
Lenz	p. 139
Notes	p. 160
Leonce and Lena	p. 163
Variant to Act I, Scene 1	p. 193
Notes	p. 196
Woyzeck: A Reconstruction	p. 199
Synopsis	p. 225
The Drafts	p. 226
Notes	p. 242
Letters	p. 245
Notes	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 304
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