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Two Plays: An Angel Comes to Babylon & Romulus The Great
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bookshelves: swiss, play, read-in-german, weird-and-or-crazy, absurd, made-me-cry
Jun 12, 2009
bookshelves: swiss, play, read-in-german, weird-and-or-crazy, absurd, made-me-cry
D眉rrenmatt's best, in my opinion. I know his plays are supposed to show the deplorable situation of society and he prefers Brecht's theater to Aristoteles' but I think the consequence of this shouldn't be that the characters of a play are lifeless and void of personality so as to not provoke any kind of feeling, which sadly is something I feel happens sometimes with D眉rrenmatt's characters. Yet this play has three great characters, the passionate and fierce Nebukadnezar, Kurrubi the personified Mercy of God, and the very amusing hobo Akki. All of them are fantastic figures and still manage to represent aspects of the human nature and its struggle with the course of history, without allowing the reader to become indifferent towards them.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
November 15, 2008
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Finished Reading
June 12, 2009
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June 13, 2009
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swiss
June 13, 2009
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play
June 13, 2009
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read-in-german
June 13, 2009
– Shelved as:
weird-and-or-crazy
June 13, 2009
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absurd
June 13, 2009
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made-me-cry
I think I have only read one or two plays in my entire lifetime (obligations of an intro-lit class). I should do well not to forget one of the oldest forms of storytelling!
As for your review: I also dislike it when authors write only for the social subtext or satire, to the exclusion of the characters and drama, as if that were the goal of art--to deliver Important Messages. But I gotta admit, I am not the most analytical reader out there. Important Messages are usually lost on me.