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Gone West: A Tragedy in Verse
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9781971928463
Publisher: McWest & Associates
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Gone West: A Verse Drama by Baruch Menache is an anti-naturalist labor tragedy written in poetic dramatic form. Set within barracks, fields, offices, and towns shaped by control and exhaustion, the work unfolds through fractured monologue, choral speech, and verse rather than conventional dialogue. Characters do not function as psychological individuals alone, but as speaking positions within systems of labor, authority, memory, and moral pressure.
Rejecting realism and linear plot, Gone West operates through repetition, interruption, and symbolic time. Days collapse into one another; memory interrupts chronology; language accumulates weight rather than resolution. Rickle, Tory, the Owner, the Manager, and the Chorus move between individual voice and collective utterance, revealing how social forces deform speech, identity, and hope. The Chorus serves not as commentary but as an active presence-articulating communal complicity, inherited guilt, and economic coercion.
Written as a verse drama, Gone West belongs to the tradition of poetic theater and choral tragedy while engaging contemporary themes of labor exploitation, authority, citizenship, and dispossession. The work is formally challenging, politically charged, and deliberately resistant to naturalistic staging. Language here is not a vehicle for action; it is the terrain where action occurs.
This book will appeal to readers of experimental drama, poetic theater, and philosophical literature, as well as to those interested in labor history, social critique, and anti-realist form. Gone West is not a conventional play, but a serious literary work intended for readers, performers, and thinkers drawn to dense language, structural rigor, and uncompromising vision.
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