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From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind''s major modern play, Spring Awakening.

Featuring an introduction by Franzen.

First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind''s controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind''s intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play''s subject matterteenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexualityis as explosive and important today as it was a century ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, Spring Awakening offers no easy answers or redemption.

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Spring Awakening

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    A Paperback / softback by Frank Wedekind, Jonathan Franzen

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 4 September 2007
      ISBN-13 9780865479784
      978-0865479784
      ISBN-10 086547978X
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind''s major modern play, Spring Awakening.

      Featuring an introduction by Franzen.

      First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind''s controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind''s intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play''s subject matterteenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexualityis as explosive and important today as it was a century ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, Spring Awakening offers no easy answers or redemption.

      Today, mo

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