Peter Weiss

The Shadow of the Coachman's Body

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Peter Weiss
The Shadow of the Coachman's Body / Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers
From the revolutionary author of Marat/Sade, a meticulously observed and macabre novel of hell on earth. The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body was unanimously praised as an original work of art by critics when it first appeared in 1960. In  this slim volume, Weiss presents a vividly alive black comedy of inert objects — stones, buttons, needles, tin cups, celestial orbs, an overwound music box — with a supporting cast of the oblique residents of a dismal boarding house. Described by...
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From the revolutionary author of Marat/Sade, a meticulously observed and macabre novel of hell on earth. The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body was unanimously praised as an original work of art by critics when it first appeared in 1960. In  this slim volume, Weiss presents a vividly alive black comedy of inert objects — stones, buttons, needles, tin cups, celestial orbs, an overwound music box — with a supporting cast of the oblique residents of a dismal boarding house. Described by Weiss as a “micro-novel,” his first prose work can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate with endless possibilities — a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.
»Exhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original.« Bookforum

»Peter Weiss has achieved international celebrity through his plays and dramatic documentaries. But in the long run, his earlier prose writings will be recognized as his finest work.« George Steiner
»Exhilaratingly strange, compelling, and original.« Bookforum

»Peter Weiss has achieved international celebrity through his plays and dramatic documentaries. But in the long run, his earlier prose writings will be recognized as his finest work.« George Steiner
1960, 100 pages
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Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays Marat/Sade and Die Ermittlung, as well as the monumental three-volume historical novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Born in Germany in 1916, he began his career as visual artist, studying at the Prague Art Academy in the late 1930s. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland, his family moved to Sweden where Weiss would spend the rest of his life, becoming a Swedish citizen in 1946. His work won many major German literary awards and Peter Brook’s production of Marat/Sade received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966.

Peter Weiss (1916–1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays...

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

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The Aesthetics of Resistance
Year of Publication: 1981
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1981

The Aesthetics of Resistance

The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade....

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English world rights (Duke UP), Spanish world rights (Fondo de Cultura Económica), Chinese simplex rights (Henan UP), France (Klincksieck), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (Moonji), Slovak Republic (slovart), Serbia (Kontrast), Turkey (Iletisim)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Historische Uitgeverij), Denmark (Rosinante), Norway (Pax)

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat
Year of Publication: 1968
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1968

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat

Peter Weiss’s play keeps close to historical facts and is founded on authentic material, but remains as far from a historical play as possible. Life and death of Jean Paul Marat are depicted as a...
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USA (Dramatic Publishing), UK (Marion Boyars), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), France (L’Arche), Japan (Hakusuisha), Czech Republic (Artur), Turkey (Imge), Albania (K & B), Georgia (Ilia State UP)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Peixoto), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Niels Bings Forlag), Sweden (Bo Cafevors), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finnland (Otava), Korea (Sung Kyun Kwan UP), Slovakia (Slovenske Krasnej Literatury), Hungary (Hollo Es Tarsa)

The Investigation
Year of Publication: 1965
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1965

The Investigation

Between December 1963 and August 1965, the Auschwitz trial was held in Frankurt/Main. In it, the ones responsible for the functioning of the machinery of annihilation stood in front of a...
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USA (Dramatic Publishing), UK (Marion Boyars), France (L’Arche Editeur), Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Epix), Korea (GIYI Press), Turkey (Alfa)

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Leavetaking
Year of Publication: 1961
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1961

Leavetaking

A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.

 

This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator’s...

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English world rights (Melville House Books), Spanish world rights (Alpha Decay), Sweden (Bonniers), Czech Republic (Opus), Ukraine (Krapky),

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