About the book: 2001 / The book is the first edition in Russia of selected plays by the modern German playwright and novelist Botho Strauss (born in 1944). Depth, subjectivism and the sophistication of perception of the inner world of a contemporary, an attempt to understand the causes of mental crises of the individual in close connection with the analysis of the social climate distinguish Strauss, a neo-romantic postmodernist, from playwrights of other directions of the German theater.