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The fire raisers / Max Frisch
Titre : The fire raisers : a morality without a moral, with an afterpiece / Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Max Frisch, Auteur ; Michael Bullock, Traducteur Editeur : London : Methuen Année de publication : 1978 Importance : 87 p. Format : 21 cm Note générale : Langues : Anglais Langues originales : Résumé : This dark comedy is set in a town that is being regularly attacked by arsonists. Disguised as door-to-door salesmen (hawkers), they talk their way into people's homes and settle down in the attic, where they set about the destruction of the house. Written in the years following World War II, as a metaphor for Nazism and fascism, the play shows how "normal" citizens can be taken in by evil.[3]
The central character, a businessman called Biedermann, is seen at the outset reading newspaper reports of arson, convinced that he could never be taken in. Within minutes, the first "hawker" has appeared (Schmitz), and through a combination of intimidation and persuasion he talks his way into spending the night in the attic. As the play unfolds, a second arsonist appears (Eisenring), and before Biedermann can do anything to stop it, his attic is piled high with oil drums full of petrol. He even helps them to measure the detonating fuse and gives them matches, refusing to believe the full horror of what is happening. He soon becomes an accomplice in his own downfall.
The action is observed by a Greek-style chorus of "firemen", and the increasingly surreal flavour culminates in a final scene, the afterpiece, where Biedermann and his wife Babette find themselves at the gates of Hell. Here they once again meet Schmitz and Eisenring who turn out to be Beelzebub and the Devil respectively, who, after becoming angered at the number of mass murderers being allowed to go to Heaven, refuses to conduct a Hell for a "small fry" like Biedermann.[4]Nature du document : Théâtre Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité Date d'acquisition SEV00006586 T FRI Livre de fiction Biblioteca della scuola secondaria English Disponible 21/03/2014