Papa Hamlet

by Johannes Schlaf and Arno Holz

Adultery, vulgarity, disordered lives on the brink of collapse: the feverish existence of failed actor Niels Thienwiebel shocked German readers when PAPA HAMLET was first published in 1889. In declaiming the soliloquies of his most famous role, "the great Thienwiebel" finds delusional refuge from the squalid room he shares with despondent wife Amalie and infant son Fortinbras. But it was the radical style as much as the moral outrage of this novella...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3947325118
• ISBN13: 9783947325115
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Rixdorf Editions
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 7.0"