The Fever by Wallace Shawn

The Fever by Wallace Shawn

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The Fever by Wallace Shawn

Winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave, The Fever has been called a starkly written, harrowing journey into the] dark night of the soul that is as searing on the page as it is on the stage (Booklist). While visiting a poverty-stricken country far from home, the unnamed narrator of The Fever is forced to witness the political persecution occurring just beyond a hotel window. In examining a life of comfort and relative privilege, the narrator reveals, I always say to my friends, We should be glad to be alive. We should celebrate life. We should understand that life is wonderful. But how does one celebrate life--take pleasure in beauty, for instance--while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppression of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable life? In a coruscating monologue, The Fever is most of all an eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.
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ISBN 13 9780802140708
ISBN 10 080214070X
Titel The Fever
Autor Wallace Shawn
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2004-01-27
Seitenanzahl 80
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