Jens BjØrneboe
Amputation
Texts for an Exraordinary Spectacle
Translated from the Norwegian by Solrun Hoaas
& Esther Greenleaf Mürer
ISBN 1-879378-46-9 (paper)
173 pages, $15
Sketch by the author for the play.
First Publication in English
The Norweigian iconoclast Jens Bjørneboe described this work as "a
wild, almost surrealistic play — partly sinister, partly comic... directed
against those forms of society that do not allow room for people who think
differently from those in power." In the horrible world of Amputation
the dissident individual who cannot be normalized by conditioned reflexes
may yet serve society — in the medical sense.
Bjørneboe wrote two versions of the play. Here, in one volume, are
both, plus suplemental texts that provide all the materials for an extraordinary
reading and, for the avant-garde theatrical group, an extraordinary
production of Bjørneboe's shocking and prophetic warning.
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