OLAF BERWALD is Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University.

• IntroductionSubversive Slapstick: The Early Plays Der Turm, Die Versicherung, Nacht Mit Gästen, and MockinpottMockinpottThe Choreography of Documents: Die Ermittlung, Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz, and Viet Nam DiskursStaging Writers as Outcasts: Marat/Sade, Trotzki im Exil, Hölderlin, Der Prozess, and Der neue ProzessScenarios of Stagnation: Early ProseAutobiography and Fiction: Abschied von den Eltern, Fluchtpunkt, and RekonvaleszenzPoetics and Politics: Essays, Open Letters, and FragmentsPerception as Resistance: Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsWorks ConsultedIndex

In this tight and well-organized volume Berwald ... offers succinct and intelligent interpretations and comments on Weiss's oeuvre.... Essential.

OLAF BERWALD is Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University.

• IntroductionSubversive Slapstick: The Early Plays Der Turm, Die Versicherung, Nacht Mit Gästen, and MockinpottMockinpottThe Choreography of Documents: Die Ermittlung, Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz, and Viet Nam DiskursStaging Writers as Outcasts: Marat/Sade, Trotzki im Exil, Hölderlin, Der Prozess, and Der neue ProzessScenarios of Stagnation: Early ProseAutobiography and Fiction: Abschied von den Eltern, Fluchtpunkt, and RekonvaleszenzPoetics and Politics: Essays, Open Letters, and FragmentsPerception as Resistance: Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsWorks ConsultedIndex

In this tight and well-organized volume Berwald ... offers succinct and intelligent interpretations and comments on Weiss's oeuvre.... Essential.

OLAF BERWALD is Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University.

• IntroductionSubversive Slapstick: The Early Plays Der Turm, Die Versicherung, Nacht Mit Gästen, and MockinpottMockinpottThe Choreography of Documents: Die Ermittlung, Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz, and Viet Nam DiskursStaging Writers as Outcasts: Marat/Sade, Trotzki im Exil, Hölderlin, Der Prozess, and Der neue ProzessScenarios of Stagnation: Early ProseAutobiography and Fiction: Abschied von den Eltern, Fluchtpunkt, and RekonvaleszenzPoetics and Politics: Essays, Open Letters, and FragmentsPerception as Resistance: Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsWorks ConsultedIndex

In this tight and well-organized volume Berwald ... offers succinct and intelligent interpretations and comments on Weiss's oeuvre.... Essential.