Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983)

Moise and the World of Reason

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

Black cloth with blue and white spine titles; The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with a remainder mark and small ownership stamp on the free endpage. The dust jacket has the price; light even toning, and no wear to note. 8.25 inches tall; 11-190 pages.

This is a lesser-known but highly intriguing play by Tennessee Williams, first performed in 1970. This work combines Williams' signature themes of isolation, identity, and the tension between human desires and societal constraints, all framed within a surreal, allegorical narrative.

Williams' style in Moise and the World of Reason is both abstract and provocative, drawing on a range of philosophical ideas while remaining deeply personal in its exploration of human condition. The play offers an exploration of intellectualism versus emotional truth, and the tension between modernity's rational worldview and the more chaotic, irrational nature of human emotions. [Adapted from Reviews]

Subjects: intellectualism vs. emotion, isolation, self-exploration, existential crisis, alienation, existential drama, psychological drama.

Item #20573
ISBN: 0671219820

Price: $24.00