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Original Title:	The Fever (Evergreen original)
ISBN:	080214070X (ISBN13: 9780802140708)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Obie for Best New American Play (1991)

The Fever

Wallace Shawn

Paperback | Pages: 80 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 432 Users | 44 Reviews

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Winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave, The Fever has been called “a starkly written, harrowing journey into [the] dark night of the soul that is as searing on the page as it is on the stage” (Booklist). While visiting a poverty-stricken country far from home, the unnamed narrator of The Fever is forced to witness the political persecution occurring just beyond a hotel window. In examining a life of comfort and relative privilege, the narrator reveals, “I always say to my friends, We should be glad to be alive. We should celebrate life. We should understand that life is wonderful.” But how does one celebrate life—take pleasure in beauty, for instance—while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppression of other human beings are a direct consequence of one’s own pleasurable life? In a coruscating monologue, The Fever is most of all an eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

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Title	:	The Fever
Author	:	Wallace Shawn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 80 pages
Published	:	January 27th 2004 by Grove Press (first published January 1st 1991)
Categories	:	Plays. Fiction. Drama. Theatre. Philosophy

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Ratings: 4.16 From 432 Users | 44 Reviews

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A good thing to read for me right now as one of my preoccupations is the cuntiness of white people and our stake as world-owners. And the entitlement and puzzling optimism of travelers so clueless at times. Would be amazing to see this performed by Shawn himself I imagine.

seriously so incredible. i recommend watching the live reading (part 1 | part 2), as it's wonderful to hear it read by the author himself. (Also, I love Wallace Shawn's voice.)A brutally honest piece of work that, in my opinion, pretty much exemplifies a certain argument for why art matters.

This was an incredibly fast read for me. I have never been able to read books in a day, but I finished this one in a matter of an hour or two yesturday, it is only 68 pages. This book was an eye opener for sure. It has no chapters, no charaters, no dialouge. It is just 68 pages of continual string of thoughts and 68 pages is the pefect length for that. The narrator talks of how great his life has been and how life should be celebrated and how grand it all is. However, he later discovers that

A monologue that has been performed by the author in many different venues over many years. More or less a Marxist screed (though the character, who is only mostly the author, also excoriates Marxists). It is hard to argue with the basic premise that those who live a life of privilege while others are starving should feel an existential shame in their comfort. Still, not a very engaging premise, and no solutions are proposed; rather, this is an hour-long lecture on what bad people we are.

Really interesting, in terms of how Shawn was able to carry this out without being heavyhanded. I'd like to see it performed by someone worthy of the text.

I had to read through the first half of this monologue/dramatic essay twice before I was able to finish...but the perseverance paid off. This essay, which kind of reminded (in tone and style only) of Virginia Woolf's Room With a View, decries the complacency of people (especially wealthy people) who turn a blind eye to the suffering in the world. I think it helps to know that Shawn intended this monologue to be given to small groups of 10-12 at dinners and parties--realizing that gave the play

Brilliant short solo play. Moral clarity and poetic contradiction that youd expect from Wally Shawn If I manage to overcome my aversion to digital theatre maybe Ill livestream a reading from my bathroom floor.