CRITICISM

Best, Otto F. Peter Weiss, translated by Ursule Molinaro, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1976, 150 p.

Offers a thematic and stylistic examination of Weiss's major works.

Cohen, Robert. Understanding Peter Weiss, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993, 206 p.

Full-length critical analysis.

Jost, Hermand and Marc Silberman, eds. Rethinking Peter Weiss, New York: Peter Lang, 2000, 199 p.

Collection of critical essays.

Pakendorf, Gunther. “‘I Have Arrived Twenty Years Too Late’: The Intertext of Peter Weiss' Investigation into Auschwitz.” Acta Germanica 23 (1995): 69-78.

Underscores the theme of the search for identity in The Investigation.

Vance, Kathleen A. The Theme of Alienation in the Prose of Peter Weiss, Las Vegas, Nev.: Peter Lang, 1981, 228 p.

Delineates the theme of alienation in Weiss's work.

Additional coverage of Weiss's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48, 106; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 3; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 15, 51; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 69, 124; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists; Drama for Students, Vol. 3; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3.