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Josephine: The Mouse Singer
by Michael McClure
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0811207552
- ISBN 13
- 9780811207553
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Paperback / softback. New. Michael McClureâs <em>Josephine: The Mouse Singer</em>, a play in verse, is based on a story of Franz Kafkaâs, âJosephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk.â Kafka and McClure? And yet the combination is bound to work, for in essence both writers in their different ways ponder the trials of the artist in an arbitrary universe. McClureâs exuberant, inspired adaptation, in fact, reminds us of the bizarre whimseys Kafkaâs tales were originally intended to be. The first New York production of <em>Josephine: The Mouse Singer</em>, in November 1978 at the WPA Theatre, received <em>The Village Voice</em>âs prestigious Obie award for the Best Play of the Year. âAs so often happens Off-Off-Broadway,â the <em>Voice</em>âs citation reads. âit is a play that was performed for only three weekends, but it is a play of extraordinary wit and grace and wisdom, at once utterly charming and almost unbearably painful, a play which tells us that the relationship between artists and their society is often intolerable, but which also tells us that for a society to endure without its artists is impossible.â
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- Bookseller
- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Josephine: The Mouse Singer
- Author
- Michael McClure
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0811207552
- ISBN 13
- 9780811207553
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1980
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