Shooting Rats, Other Plays and Poems

by Peter Turrini and Richard Dixon

This volume contains some of the more controversial and personal works produced by Turrini, who has come to be recognized today as one of the leading Austrian dramatists. The plays, Shooting Rats, Infanticide, Death and the Devil, and The Siege of Vienna treat contemporary social conditions and problems in Austria: alienation from the consumer society, the loss of humanity, and the quest for redemption in a morally corrupt world. Turrini's poems,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929497988
• ISBN13: 9780929497983
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
• Length: 211 Pages