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The Unexpected Man

The Unexpected Man

by YasminaReza (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $6.97
Synopsis

A famous author takes a train journey and sits opposite an unknown woman who's reading his latest book, The Unexpected Man . He observes her reading the novel but affects not to notice. Likewise, she pretends not to recognise that he is the writer. In bizarre, self-obsessed monologues these two characters relate memories, fears and ideas, never actually exchanging conversation until the very end of the piece. Entertaining and intellectually stimulating, Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's disquieting play explores the 'nostalgia of what doesn't occur', and raises questions about the ambiguous relationship between writers and readers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 20 Apr 1998
ISBN 10: 0571196047
ISBN 13: 9780571196043

Media Reviews
Enthralling . . . A stimulating, amusing, perceptive play. -- The Daily Telegraph
A consummately elegant translation by Christopher Hampton. -- The Independent on Sunday
Crisply translated . . . Delicate, witty, neatly constructed and peppered with irony. It captures the slippery, fleeting nature of the possibilities that surround us. -- Financial Times
Author Bio
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3, A Spanish Play and The God of Carnage have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages. Novels include Hammerklavier, Une Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d'Arther Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit. Film includes Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz directed by Didier Martiny.