First-time publication in English, one of Peter Weiss' last works which takes a surreal look at the fortunes of "Josef K," attorney, whose law firm appears to be sincere and appealing to the public while masking a dark, fascistic impulse to ach

"The New Trial" is Peter Weiss's final drama, completed only months before his death in 1982 and never before published in English.""One of Europe's most important twentieth century playwrights--often considered as influential as Brecht and Beckett--Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of the Broadway play "Marat/Sade "and the three-volume novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance, " which has elicited comparison with Joyce's "Ulysses "and Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude. "Initially influenced by Franz Kafka and later by the American Henry Miller, Weiss worked to...

A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance" is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play "Marat/Sade." The first volume, presented here, was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weiss's death.

Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War II, this...

Regarded by many as one of the leading works of this century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during WWII.