The Man Outside: Play & Stories

Wolfgang Borchert died in 1947--the twenty-six-year-old victim of a malaria-like fever contracted during World War II. This was just one day after the premier of his play, The Man Outside, which caused an immediate furor throughout his native Germany with its youthful, indeed revolutionary, vision against war and the dehumanizing effects of the police state. In a very real sense, Borchert was both the moral and physical victim of the Third Reich and the Nazi war machine. As a Wehrmacht conscript, he twice served on the Russian front, where he was wounded, and twice was imprisoned for his outspokenness. His voice speaks plainly and powerfully from out of the war's carnage all the more poignantly for its being cut short at so young an age.

Author: Wolfgang Borchert
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1971
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.28w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780811200110
ISBN10: 0811200116
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | German