{"product_id":"the-visit-a-tragicomedy-paperback","title":"The Visit: A Tragicomedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this ALTA National Translation Award-winning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth-century theater.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Dürrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: \"I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Visit\u003c\/i\u003e is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 and confronts the perennial questions of honor, loyalty, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324158673119,"sku":"9780802144263","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gsPl_Pivdl9780802144263.webp?v=1788426183","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-visit-a-tragicomedy-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}