Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Labyrinth

English Title: The Winter War in Tibet/ Lunar Eclipse/ The Rebel

Dürrenmatt's essays are among his most impressive achievements. Their range alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority and charm about art, literature, philosophy, politics, and the theatre. His best known essays are ›Theatre Problems‹, ›The Bridge‹, ›The Brain‹, ›Vinter‹, ›Monster Essay on Justice and Law‹ and ›The Winter War in Tibet‹, a fantasy of a third world war waged in a vast subterranean labyrinth - a Plato's Cave allegory rewritten for our own troubled times.