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Josephine: The Mouse Singer Paperback - 1980

by Michael McClure

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Michael McClure's Josephine: The Mouse Singer, a play in verse, is based on a story of Franz Kafka's, "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk." Kafka and McClure? And yet the combination is bound to work, for in essence both writers in their different ways ponder the trials of the artist in an arbitrary universe. McClure's exuberant, inspired adaptation, in fact, reminds us of the bizarre whimseys Kafka's tales were originally intended to be. The first New York production of Josephine: The Mouse Singer, in November 1978 at the WPA Theatre, received The Village Voice's prestigious Obie award for the Best Play of the Year. "As so often happens Off-Off-Broadway," the Voice's citation reads. "it is a play that was performed for only three weekends, but it is a play of extraordinary wit and grace and wisdom, at once utterly charming and almost unbearably painful, a play which tells us that the relationship between artists and their society is often intolerable, but which also tells us that for a society to endure without its artists is impossible."

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  • Title Josephine: The Mouse Singer
  • Author Michael McClure
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 132
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
  • Publication date 1980-03-17
  • ISBN 9780811207553 / 0811207552
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.31 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 0.79 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79025429
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

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New York: New Directions, 1980. Paperback. [v]116p., cast, production history, very good first edition trade paperback original in white pictorial wraps. New Directions Paperback NDP496. Obie Award-winning play based on a short story by Kafka.
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(New York): New Directions, 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Preface by Michael Feingold. Slight toning else near fine. Obie Award, Best Play of the Year.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation. Near Fine. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. 0811207552 . Inscribed on the title page to Ruth Witt-Diamant, founder of The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. "For Ruth, 'so there is both perfection - and there is none', exactly as matter comes into being from other space, Michael, [see pg. 79]." Illustrated white wrappers. Minuscule bump to lower front corner, spine very slightly darkened.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author(s) .
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