#17 in Drama & theatre
The Visit
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Editor’s note Friedrich Dürrenmatt called this 1956 play a tragic comedy. The billionaire Claire Zachanassian returns to Güllen, the bankrupt small town of her youth, and offers it one billion on a single condition: the death of Alfred Ill, the shopkeeper who abandoned her decades earlier and denied fathering her child with bribed witnesses. The townspeople refuse in outrage, then start buying on credit. It premiered in Zurich in January 1956 and was filmed in 1964 with Ingrid Bergman.
About the book
The Visit is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 58 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Drama & theatre average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 58 | 100% |
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