Das Duell

by Peter Weiss

Barcelona. 18 cm. 127 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Palabra Menor', numero coleccion(14). Weiss, Peter 1916-1982. Traducción Feliu Formosa .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8426429149

130 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.

Weiss' first art exhibition took place in 1936. His first produced play was Der Turm in 1950. In 1952 he joined the Swedish Experimental Film Studio, where he made films for several years. During this period, he also taught painting at Stockholm's People's University, and illustrated a Swedish edition of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. Until the early 1960s, Weiss also wrote prose. His work consists of short and intense novels with Kafkaesque details and feelings, often with autobiographical background. One of the most known films made by Peter Weiss is an experimental one, The Mirage (1959) and the second one - it is very seldom mentioned - is a film Weiss directed in Paris 1960 together with Barbro Boman, titled Play Girls or The Flamboyant Sex (Schwedische Mädchen in Paris or Verlockung in German). Among the short films by Weiss, The Studio of Doctor Faust (1956) shows the extremely strong link of Weiss to a German cultural background.

Weiss' best-known work is the play Marat/Sade (1963), first performed in West Berlin in 1964, which brought him widespread international attention. The following year, legendary director Peter Brook staged a famous production in New York City. It studies the power in society through two extreme and extremely different historical persons, Jean-Paul Marat, a brutal hero of the French Revolution, and the Marquis de Sade, for whom sadism was named. In Marat/Sade, Weiss uses a technique which, to quote from the play itself, speaks of the play within a play within itself: "Our play's chief aim has been to take to bits great propositions and their opposites, see how they work, and let them fight it out." The play is considered a classic, and is still performed, although less regularly.

Weiss was honored with the Charles Veillon Award, 1963; the Lessing Prize, 1965; the Heinrich Mann Prize, 1966; the Carl Albert Anderson Prize, 1967; the Thomas Dehler Prize, 1978; the Cologne Literature Prize, 1981; the Bremen Literature Prize, 1982; the De Nios Prize, 1982; the Swedish Theatre Critics Prize, 1982; and the Georg Büchner Prize, 1982.

A translation of Weiss' L'instruction (Die Ermittlung) was performed at London's Young Vic theater by a Rwandan company in November 2007. The production presented a dramatic contrast between the play's view on the Holocaust and the Rwandan actors' own experience with their nation's genocide.




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Reviews

[Sinah David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ein verwirrender surrealistischen Text. Irgendwie mag man ihn.

[Jack Cienfuegos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Novela totalmente surrealista en la cual se intercalan personajes todo el tiempo y que por momentos llega a confundir el ir y venir de lo que se viene contando entre personajes y lugares.
La historia en sí trata de relaciones y como las mismas van mutando. Se hace constante el costado metafísico de las personas y se comenta mucho el que sienten por dentro, tanto que podríamos mencionar que es una especie de novela acerca de la psicología de las personas.
Por momentos se torna apocalíptica, según lo leído sucede el relato en varios lugares algo en ruinas y a la vez no sucede mucho dentro de ellos; es un ir y venir en donde se pueden rescatar cosas que le suceden por dentro a los personajes y nada más. Es ahí donde hace agua la trama, en la cuestión argumental.
Si te gusta el surrealismo y el devenir constante de pensamientos todo el tiempo, si tenes problemas de pareja o estas a punto de cambiar algo en tu vida, este libro es para vos, de lo contrario aleja de vos todo tipo de pensamientos de lectura hacía él.

[Alba Aranga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro que ahonda en las relaciones humanas, física y psicológicamente, desde el más puro surrealismo. No es una historia en sí, es un viaje: onírico, visceral, que se desarrolla de forma turbulenta, con ritmo descompasado. Trata las relaciones de un hombre consigo mismo, con mujeres y con hijas, y pone el foco en la violencia de lo tradicionalmente femenino y lo que nos/les atrae de ella. Agradezco que Weiss deje espacio para reflexionar sobre lo que plantea, que descentralice el discurso de la figura masculina y le otorgue voz a las mujeres, a su deseo y su psique más oscura.