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Biography: A Game

Biography: A Game

Frisch, Max
Duarte, Birgit Schreyer

Paperback

Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature

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ISBN10: 1803092157
ISBN13: 9781803092157
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Jul 6 2023
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could--or would--change if we got another chance.

In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kürmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane--He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, Kürmann finds himself inexorably trapped in the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, Kürmann's life game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. The play's central idea--that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities--is brilliantly captured in Biography's dramaturgical form, setting up a theatre rehearsal as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life.

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