Synopsis
Don Juan Comes Back From War & Figaro Gets Divorced
Odon von Horvath trans Christopher Hampton & Ian Huish
Published by Oberon
Hampton's translation of Don Juan Comes Back from the War presents the anti-hero of the title returning from the front in a fervour of despair. The girl he is searching for has died and the romantic ideal he is trying to construct is opposed by endless recriminations from the succession of women he encounters
Figaro Gets Divorced concerns the rise and fall of an aristocratic couple and their two servants on the run from a revolution