Reddit reviews The Man Outside: Play & stories

> I dont know how easy it is to actually get a copy, though.

Really hard!

I'm writing an essay on this right at this moment...spooky!

There's a radio play version of it on this site here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027n4xp
which I'd highly recommend because it gives you a much better sense of what the performance would look like than just reading it. (You might need to use some sort of proxy for it if you're outside the UK though)

The English title is "the man outside" and there's copies of the book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Outside-Wolfgang-Borchert/dp/0811200116 You might have to get a second hand copy though.

The play was also made into a film called 'Love '47' in English but this is quite far removed from the original text and in my opinion not as good so I'd recommend reading the play before watching it.

If you want to find out more about Wolfgang Borchert or the play itself I'd recommend the book "The life and works of Wolfgang Borchert" by Gordon Burgess. It gives a good introduction, a simple description of his life and the time he was writing in and introduces some basic ideas on the texts.

It's one of my favourite German plays so I hope you enjoy!