Save Yourself If You Can – Six Plays

Name: Save Yourself If You Can – Six Plays
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SKU: 9781803092584
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By Douglas Robertson and Thomas Bernhard

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Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays by Thomas Bernhard, translated into English for the first time. The plays include The Ignoramus and the Madman, The Celebrities, Immanuel Kant, The Goal Attained, Simply Complicated, and Elizabeth II. These works span Bernhard’s career as a dramatist, presenting a range of tones from somber lyricism and misanthropy to biting satire and slapstick. They explore familiar themes for Bernhard readers, adapted thoughtfully for the stage.
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This collection will appeal to enthusiasts of modern theatre and Austrian literature, as well as readers interested in dramatic works that combine philosophical depth with dark humour.

Save Yourself If You Can – Six Plays

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A collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first time.

Save Yourself If You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard’s career as a dramatist. The plays collected in this long-awaited addition to Bernhard’s oeuvre in English—The Ignoramus and the Madman, The Celebrities, Immanuel Kant, The Goal Attained, Simply Complicated, and Elizabeth II—traverse somber lyricism and misanthropy to biting satire and glorious slapstick.

They explore themes that will be familiar to longtime readers of Bernhard, but here they are presented in a subtly different register, attuned to the needs of the stage.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803092584

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Width: 6.0mm

Height: 9.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 480

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Arts & Culture Douglas Robertson Non-Fiction Thomas Bernhard

About the Author

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. He went on to win many of the most prestigious literary prizes in Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brüchner prizes, and Le Prix Séguier. Douglas Robertson is a translator based in Baltimore, Maryland. He has translated many works from German into English, and he has studied Thomas Bernhard’s work for over ten years.