{"product_id":"thirst","title":"Thirst","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Gabriel Marcel | Translated by Michial Farmer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrompted by her stepmother, \u003c\/b\u003eStella Chartrain delves so frantically into family history that her father is forced to reveal the full truth about the past—regardless of its implications for the present. Instead of setting her free from fear, however, the truth further provokes Stella’s obsession and casts its cloud of accompanying anxiety over her father and stepmother and her fiancé and his family. In this new translation (the very first into English), Michial Farmer brings out the intensity and conversational spirit of the prose to provide a highly readable—and actable—edition of Marcel’s play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSet in a single room across three acts, the drama takes on a close, almost suffocating, atmosphere as the Chartrain and de Puygerland families wrestle with their dread and disquiet in the face of a suspect past and an uncertain future. In this setting, as Farmer notes in his Introduction, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThirst\u003c\/i\u003e stands among the best of Marcel’s dramas, as it “limns that suffocation and points beyond it, however tenuously and ambiguously.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Marcel \u003c\/b\u003e(1889–1973) was a French philosopher and dramatist, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and the most distinguished proponent of Christian existentialism of the twentieth century. His works in English include \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Existence\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Being and Having\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichial Farmer \u003c\/b\u003e(PhD, University of Georgia, 2013) is the author of \u003ci\u003eImagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (Camden House, 2017). His poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerica Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFront Porch Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFORMA\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212pp.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1952826689\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42861789118558,"sku":"978-1952826689","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/2929\/1614\/files\/Product114.jpg?v=1780986919","url":"https:\/\/nez-emporium.com\/products\/thirst","provider":"Nez Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}