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Marbles: A Play in Three Acts
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Marbles: A Play in Three Acts Paperback - 1990

by Joseph Brodsky; Alan Myers (Translator)

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From the publisher

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely physical confines. The fusion of its dour, somewhat terrifying vision with the macabre hilarity of its verbal texture allows Marbles to take its audience beyond the farthest reaches of the theatre of the absurd, into territory more suitable for modernist imagination than for human experience.

Details

  • Title Marbles: A Play in Three Acts
  • Author Joseph Brodsky; Alan Myers (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1990-01-01
  • ISBN 9780374521165 / 0374521166
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.59 x 0.26 in (21.67 x 14.20 x 0.66 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88021188
  • Dewey Decimal Code 891.724

About the author

Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.

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