{"product_id":"the-shadow-of-the-coachmans-body-9780811231619","title":"The Shadow of the Coachman's Body","description":"Peter Weiss's first prose work, \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of the Coachman's Body\u003c\/em\u003e, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop's stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house--stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box--which have oblique characters' shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a \"micro-novel,\" \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of the Coachman's Body\u003c\/em\u003e can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities--like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeiss, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Weiss\u003c\/strong\u003e (1916-1982) was a German playwright, dramatist, visual artist, filmmaker, and novelist. His works include \u003cem\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of the Coachman's Body\u003c\/em\u003e. He is best known in the US for his play \u003cem\u003eMarat\/Sade\u003c\/em\u003e: Peter Brook's production received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966. His documentary drama \u003cem\u003eThe Investigation\u003c\/em\u003e, which recreates the trial of Auschwitz concentration camp guards, was produced on American television in the 1960s. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize after his death in 1982.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaldrop, Rosmarie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRosmarie Waldrop\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are \u003cem\u003eThe Nick of Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGap Gardening: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and \u003cem\u003eDriven to Abstraction\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts of Letters, and is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. For fifty-six years, she and her husband Keith Waldrop ran one of the country's most vibrant experimental poetry presses, Burning Deck, in Providence, Rhode Island.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382924382482,"sku":"9780811231619","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7485a5d4-49af-4455-a4e2-72e408923867.jpg?v=1728773928","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shadow-of-the-coachmans-body-9780811231619","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}