The Fever (Evergreen original)
by Wallace Shawn
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Author: Wallace ShawnEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-27
ISBN: 080214070X
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Grove Press
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- ISBN13: 9780802140708
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Fever (Evergreen original)
Book Review: Rich and guilty
Summary: 5 Stars
This uniquely humanist play is brilliantly argued and sensitively written. It takes place in an imaginary land where Marxist principals are dominant. The authors language is not spoken there and the sense of isolation and alienation is palpable throughout. However it is a play of revelations and relative values. It's about us and them, the rich and the poor, the have and the have nots, the chambermaids and the hotel enjoying luxury seeking, book reading ruling classes. It's really about where conscience begins and responsibility ends. Shawns highly articulate language never talks down to us and never leaves us in any doubt about our debt to the developing world. Never has a play made me feel so compelled to do all I can on an individual level to live a good and decent life. The irony is, and this is his skill as a dramatist and political analyst, even this is not enough. We are so steeped in blood as to be all to blame for the suffering and pain involved in the cost of putting even the most basic of things like a cup of coffee on our table.
Summary of The Fever (Evergreen original)
Wallace Shawn's The Fever is the winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave. While visiting a poverty-stricken country far from home, the unnamed narrator of The Fever is forced to witness the political persecution occurring just beyond a hotel window. In examining a life of comfort and relative privilege, the narrator reveals, "I always say to my friends, We should be glad to be alive. We should celebrate life. We should understand that life is wonderful." But how does one celebrate life - take pleasure in beauty, for instance - while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppression of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable life? In a coruscating monologue, The Fever is most of all an eloquent meditation on living a life with conscience and action in ethical relationship to others in the world.United States Books
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