Il tunnel
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Durrenmatt was born near Bern, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant clergyman. He studied philosophy and theology and originally planned to become a painter. "All of a sudden," he has said, "I began to write, and I just had no time to finish my University degree." He has called his first play, It Is Written (1947), "a wild story of Anabaptists show more during the Reformation." When it was first produced in Zurich, it caused a minor theatrical scandal because of its somewhat unorthodox sentiments. The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, his first successful comedy, was produced in Munich in 1952 and, as adapted by Maximillian Slater with the title Fools are Passing Through, had a brief off-Broadway production in 1958. With this play he became established as one of the most popular European dramatists writing in German. His seventh play, The Visit (1956), which starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on Broadway, received the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award in 1959. Brooks Atkinson called it "devastating. A bold, grisly drama of negativism and genius." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Der Tunnel [Kurzgeschichte]
- Original title
- Der Tunnel [Kurzgeschichte]
- Original publication date
- 1952
- First words*
- Ein Vierundzwanzigjähriger, fett, damit das Schreckliche hinter den Kulissen, welches er sah (das war seine Fähigkeit, vielleicht seine einzige), nicht allzu nah an ihn herankomme, der es liebte, die Löcher in seinem Fleis... (show all)ch, da doch gerade durch sie das Ungeheuerliche hereinströmen konnte, zu verstopfen, derart, daß er Zigarren rauchte (Ormond Brasil 10) und über seiner Brille eine zweite trug, eine Sonnenbrille, und in den Ohren Wattebüschel: Dieser junge Mann, noch von seinen Eltern abhängig und mit nebulosen Studien auf einer Universität beschäftigt, die in einer zweistündigen Bahnfahrt zu erreichen war, stieg eines Sonntagnachmittags in den gewohnten Zug, Abfahrt siebzehn Uhr fünfzig, Ankunft neunzehn Uhr siebenundzwanzig, um anderentags ein Seminar zu besuchen, das zu schwänzen er schon entschlossen war.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nichts. Gott ließ uns fallen, und so stürzen wir denn auf ihn zu.
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- Deutsch
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- German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
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