ARTHUR MILLER - Incident at Vichy

London England, Secker & Warburg, 1966. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Arthur Miller's new play is set in a detention room in France in 1942. The characters are nine men and a boy who have been picked up from the streets for a reason unknown to them. As one by one they are taken offstage for interrogation, gradually the reason for their arrest becomes apparent: with one exception, they are all Jews. In their several ways they represent different levels of Jewish exclusiveness, and it is the realization of what they have in common, and yet their unwillingness to let this realization be explicit, which forms a leading theme of the play. The action takes place on the one set in one uninterrupted act. It touches on issues such as the extent of individual German complicity in the destruction of the Jews and the special nature of German anti-semitism, but its major theme is that lately brought to light by Hannah Arendt: how far did the Jews consent in their own annihilation? Some wear and two small closed tears to D/J. Name, address and date of owner on inside cover.