Spring Awakening - Softcover

Wedekind, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714506346 ISBN 13: 9780714506340

Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd, 1969

Synopsis

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself. The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz's friend, Melchior, but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger (the famous Masked Man) he finally manages to shed his illusions and face the consequences.

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Review

" "Spring Awakening" is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen's fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I've ever read. In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more relevant than ever. "Spring Awakening" is essential reading." -- Christopher Shinn

" Spring Awakening is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen's fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I've ever read.& nbsp; In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more relevant than ever. Spring Awakening is essential reading. " & nbsp; -- Christopher Shinn

""Spring Awakening" is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen's fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I've ever read. In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more relevant than ever. "Spring Awakening" is essential reading." --Christopher Shinn

"Spring Awakening" is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen's fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I've ever read. In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more relevant than ever. "Spring Awakening" is essential reading. "Christopher Shinn""

Spring Awakening is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen's fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I've ever read. In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more relevant than ever. Spring Awakening is essential reading. Christopher Shinn"

"Spring Awakening is the best play ever written about teenagers, and Jonathan Franzen's fraught yet buoyant translation is the best I've ever read. In a culture where lies about adolescence prevail, this funny and honest play is more relevant than ever. Spring Awakening is essential reading." --Christopher Shinn

About the Author

Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of Freedom, selected for Oprah's Book Club, The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion, and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 1996, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714506346
• ISBN 13: 9780714506340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84