The Man Outside: Play & stories [Paperback]

Wolfgang Borchert died in 1947the twenty-six-year-old victim of a malaria-like fever contracted during World War II. This was just one day after the premier of his play,?['The Bread' is] a document, an eyewitness testimony to starvation but also a masterful story, cool and spare, not one word too few or too many.Caught between departure and arrival, in the middle of Borchert's world, stands the wanderer, the seeker...who is pursued by his own memories and by the question of guilt.This collection of Borcherts most important prose, translated by A. D. Porter with an Introduction by Stephen Spender, includes the complete text of the title play, as well as 39 stories and assorted pieces that comprise much of the authors output during the two short, fever-ridden years in which he wrote, complemented by Kay Boyles appreciative Foreword.