The Belle Vue

by Ödön von Horváth

Horv th's setting for this black political farce is a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the 1920s where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac - wealthy and despotic. Under her sole occupancy the hotel is falling apart and sliding even deeper into decadence. There is no future and no hope until a young woman arrives with a fortune to spend. What follows is a riot of confusion and mistaken identities, satirising the despair and futility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1870259734
• ISBN13: 9781870259736
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 8.1"