"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...