Three Plays Rechnitz; The Merchant's Contracts; Charges
By: Jelinek, Elfriede [VerfasserIn, VerfasserIn]
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Contributor(s): Honegger, Gitta [Translator].
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BookSeries: The Seagull Library of German Literature.Description: 560 p.ISBN: 9780857427120.Genre/Form: TheaterstückDDC classification: 830 | B Online resources: Inhaltsverzeichnis Summary: In “Rechnitz,” a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border town of Rechnitz. In “The Merchant’s Contracts,” Jelinek brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated and bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. In “Charges (The Supplicants),” Jelinek offers a powerful analysis of the plight of refugees, from ancient times to the present. She responds to the immeasurable suffering among those fleeing death, destruction, and political suppression in their home countries and, drawing on sources as widely separated in time and intent as up-to-the-minute blog postings and Aeschylus’s “The Supplicants,” Jelinek asks what refugees want, how we as a society view them, and what political, moral, and personal obligations they impose on us.
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Translated from German
In “Rechnitz,” a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border town of Rechnitz. In “The Merchant’s Contracts,” Jelinek brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated and bearing the brunt of the economic crisis. In “Charges (The Supplicants),” Jelinek offers a powerful analysis of the plight of refugees, from ancient times to the present. She responds to the immeasurable suffering among those fleeing death, destruction, and political suppression in their home countries and, drawing on sources as widely separated in time and intent as up-to-the-minute blog postings and Aeschylus’s “The Supplicants,” Jelinek asks what refugees want, how we as a society view them, and what political, moral, and personal obligations they impose on us.
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