The Diary of an Erotic Life by Frank Wedekind
In these intimate journals, Frank Wedekind shows himself to have been in life what he is in his plays, a subversive artist and merciless critic of bourgeois morality. He lived and worked in Wilhelmine, Germany in the 1890's, that period of economic unstability, fin de siecle decadence and artistic ferment; among the contemporaries who pass through these pages are playwright Gerhard Hauptmann and revolutionary Alexander Herzen. Wedekind shot to fame in 1895 with the first of the Lulu plays, and compounded his renown with "Spring Awakening". His plays have been claimed as typical of the Jugendstil art movement, which included Parisian art nouveau and related activity in Vienna and Glasgow, and their visionary eroticism has clear links with these diaries. This ediction includes the thirty pages of Wedekins's Paris diaries which were omitted from the German version, and numerous corrections and additions as a result of returning to the handwritten original.Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) had a major influence on the development of German drama in the twentieth century. His plays depict a society torn apart by the demands of desire and greed, and his powerful writing continues to offend and shock; even in the 1960s, his plays were denied a performing license in the United Kingdom.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631166078 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631166076 |
| Title | The Diary of an Erotic Life |
| Author | Frank Wedekind |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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