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Fired by a constant tension between the complementary extremes of optimism and pessimism, Buchner's writing was far ahead of its time and is as relevant now as the day it was written. Heinrich Boll has spoken of Buchner's 'remarkable relevance', Gunter Grass of his 'incendiary' force; no other German writer before Brecht has caught so intensely the modern imagination in writing that is iconoclastic, exhilarating and challenging as much in its form and aesthetic as in its ideas. John Reddick has made new translations for this edition which contains Buchner's complete plays - Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena and Woyzeck - and his one novella, Lenz, together with The Hessian Messenger and selections from his philosophical-scientific writings and his letters.
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