Simon Gray Bücher
Simon Gray war ein englischer Dramatiker und Memoirenautor, der für seinen selbstironischen Witz gefeiert wurde. Sein Werk bietet einen durchdringenden Blick auf die menschliche Natur und erforscht oft Themen wie Isolation und die Suche nach Sinn. Gray verband meisterhaft komische und tragische Elemente und schuf Erzählungen voller Ironie und tiefer Menschlichkeit.
Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays
- 144 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
Isolated university professor Simon Hench, completely and selfishly otherwise engaged in listening to a new recording "Parsifal" is continually interrupted by students, friends, lovers and life.-2 women, 5 men
The definitive Simon Gray I.
- 384 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
This play features a university lecturer, Ben Butley, who shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a teacher. On the day the play takes place, Butley faces both the ultimate breakdown of his marriage and the intensity of his friendship with Joey.
Granta - 91: Wish You Were Here
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.
Granta - 82: Life's Like That
With Simon Gray, Lynn Barber And Jayne Anne Phillips Plus: Tim Judah On The Last Jews Of Baghdad
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
An anthology of private memory, including Lynn Barber on her close encounter with bigamy, Zoe Heller on her father's lovers, and Simon Gray on absent friends. Plus new fiction from J. Robert Lennon and Nell Freudenberger.
Simon Gray: Plays 4
Common Pursuit / Holy Terror / After Pilkington / Old Flames / They Never Slept
- 368 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
A play that combines intelligence and wit with a generosity of spirit.