Marat/Sade: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss

Marat/Sade: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
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Peter Weiss

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Marat/Sade: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Peter Weiss with Geoffrey Skelton (Translator)

158 pages • paperback • first pub 1963 • 15 editions

fiction play challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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This 1963 play, first published in German, is set in the historical Charenton Asylum in 1808. It depicts a play performed by the inmates, and directed by the Marquis de Sade (himself an inmate) which depicts the events of the French Revolution dur...

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