The Visit

Synopsis

In 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. Friedrich 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 the visit is a consummate, alarming dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo.