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Original Title:	Der Besuch der alten Dame
ISBN:	0802130666 (ISBN13: 9780802130662)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Claire Zachanassian
Setting:	Switzerland
Literary Awards:	New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1959)

The Visit

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

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Title	:	The Visit
Author	:	Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	January 7th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1980)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. European Literature. German Literature. Fiction. Academic. School

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This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Durrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it was published and performed in German. The action of The Visit takes place in the small town of Guellen, "somewhere in Central Europe." An elderly millionairesse, Claire Zachanassian, returns to Guellen, her home town, after an absence of many years. Merely on the promise of her millions, she shortly turns what has been a depressed area into a boom town. But there is a condition attached to her largess, which the natives of Guellen realize only after they have become enmeshed in her vengeful plot: murder. Out of these elements, Durrenmatt has fashioned a many-leveled play which is at once a macabre parable, a deeply moving tragedy, and a scathing indictment of the power of greed.

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"The Visit" stands as a small masterpiece of misanthropy, a play whose cynicism is so thickly layered that the greed driving the plot at its surface seems almost the least of its characters' sins. For Durrenmatt, people, not money, are the root of all evil. Unlike Miller's "The Crucible", a contemporary play, this is not an exercise in puritanical hand-wringing but a black and grotesque Grimm fairy story. At the centre of this fairy story is the witch to end all witches - Claire Zachanassian;

Brilliant! I've compared this book to fine German engineering... every perfected detail has a purpose and nothing is superfluous. Swiss born Durrenmatt was a minister's son who lived through WW2, and spent his life working and re-working (and re-re-working!) these plots while figuring out his own standings on faith and human nature. He's an intellectual but not an idealist, believing in the goodness of human nature while knowing full well its limits. The book is rich with insights into the

"Ich beschreibe Menschen, nicht Marionetten, eine Handlung, nicht eine Allegorie, stelle eine Welt auf, keine Moral".- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Anmerkung I, p. 141The quotation cited above is useful information, because I came up with some weird and rather nasty interpretations of this play while reading it. Dürrenmatt's emphasis on taking this text at face value is reassuring in this case. It may perhaps also be the most useful and accurate interpretation, in that it comes closest to the

I read it as a book for school and it was ok. The plot was interesting and I thought it was cool to see it as a screenplaybook, but I already knew what was going to happen because of the ?blurb?.

4.5 out of 5 stars! ⭐ This is one of my all time favourite plays EVER! I really really love it. Seeing it being performed on stage was even more amazing than reading it. 😍👌❤

Is this the grimmest, darkest comedy ever written? It may well be. When a woman scorned returns to the community that rejected her after decades away, with an entourage of freaks and cripples and a hideous, inhuman demand, the impoverished community must decide whether to appease the monster they created or stand up for their principles and suffer. Either way, they win- either way, they lose. Durrenmatt's play revels in its moral darkness, and some may find it disturbing. That is, after all, the

This is another play about how absolutism, no matter what the purpose or just cause, is dangerous and savage and only brings about brutality.In this play a small backwater economically failing little German town gets a visit from a millionairess who grew up there. The town, knowing of her generosity elsewhere hopes she will put them back on track and depends on her high school sweetheart to get her to agree to give the money. She does, but only in exchange for the death of her high school