Peter Weiss

[Richard Romeo]

Peter Weiss is known internationally primarily as a
dramatist: his most famous work is the modern classic,
Marat/Sade. However, Weiss wrote numerous other
significant plays, several collections of essays (and
notebooks), and a variety of novels, ranging from the
experimental to the autobiographical and culminating
in the epic Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, perhaps the
single most significant German novel of the past 25
years. Weiss was also a gifted painter and filmmaker.
With the forthcoming publication of a translation of
the first of the three volumes of The Aesthetics of
Resistance this work will hopefully finally reach an
English and American audience. 
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has anyone read him--Sebald's chapter on Weiss in On
the Natural History of Destruction piqued my
interest--Sebald particularly notes The Aesthetics of
Resistance which is apparently being translated into
English--maybe our German-speaking friends have read
the original or know of it?

Rich



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