Plays and poems
By: Oskar Kokoschka ; translated by Michael Mitchell ; afterword by Karl Leydecker.
Contributors: Mitchell, Michael, 1941-
Series: Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.
Publisher: Ariadne Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Riverside, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886- -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Oskar Kokoschka was one of the major painters of the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Pochlarn on the Danube, studied in Vienna, was badly wounded in the First World War, and traveled widely around Europe in the years between the wars. He fled from fascism, first of all in 1934 to Prague and then, when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, to England, where he was naturalized in 1947. In 1954 he moved to Villeneuve in Switzerland. He died in 1980.".

"Kokoschka also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories. Best known are the early plays, such as Murderer, Hope of Women, which anticipated Expressionism. His last play is a large-scale historical canvas on the life of the Czech educational reformer Comenius."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Poems; title: Murderer, hope of women (1st version); title: Murderer, hope of women (2nd version); title: Sphinx and strawman, an oddity; title: Sphinx and strawman, a comedy for mechanical dolls; title: Job; title: The burning bush; title: Orpheus and Eurydice; title: Comenius.