Warsaw Visitor and Tales from the Vienna Streets: The Last Two Plays of William Saroyan

By William Saroyan

Written in the summer of 1980, the last summer of Saroyan's life, Warsaw Visitor and Tales from the Vienna Streets are Saroyan's ultimate statements for the stage. Inspired by recent visits to Warsaw and Vienna and shadowed by the symptoms of terminal cancer, the themes of these last two plays are vast, possibly the broadest in scope of any of Saroyan's works. Staggering achievements both of them, and the clue to each is the character of the city in which the play is laid.

211 pages

The Press at California State University, Fresno (1991)