The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive
English-language study of the work of Heiner MÜller, widely regarded as
Bertolt Brecht's spiritual heir and as one of the most important German
playwrights of the twentieth century. "Kalb's quest to try and penetrate
some of the surfaces of what he calls this 'glacially infuriating
writer' is engrossing, and he negotiates his own ambivalences and
reservations about MÜller as theatre-maker and man with both honesty and
adroitness...As a piece of scholarship âthisã is a breathtaking tour de
force." - Mary Luckhurst, New Theatre Quarterly