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Discourse on Vietnam

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Barcelona. 19 cm. 252 p., 1 h. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Palabra en el Tiempo. Serie de Teatro', numero coleccion(107). Weiss, Peter 1916-1982. Traducción Mireia Bofill .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

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Peter Weiss

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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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"Be prepared
for the worst
You in the fields
get used
to sowing and reaping
in smoke and poison

Be prepared
for the worst
You in the villages
dig pits to hide in
Make shelters too
for your goats and buffaloes
You in the schools
get used
to teaching and learning
while bombs are falling

[...]

LOUDSPEAKER.
Eugene Staley
Professor of International Economy
at Stanford's Research Institute
The President's Political Representative

We must start by acknowledging
that the Communists have already succeeded
in creating the conditions for success
in the south
It would be wrong to say they have achieved
this
through terrorism
All they have done
is to apply Mao Tse-Tung's recipe
for making a sea
on which they can move unhindered
Our task
is to dry up that sea

[...]

We were made to dig a pit
We were made to stand on the edge of the pit
They bound us in twos together
They pushed us into the pit
They shovelled earth over us
The earth is still moving"

first quarter is a history of Vietnam as far back as 500BC told in verse. as we move into early and late colonial phases we hear the aspirations of peasants, nationalists, anti-imperialists and the genocidal rhetoric of the western ruling classes. searing indictments, righteousness, cheering on the class war... they just do not make them like this anymore
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