Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55"Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph)
"A marvellous, motley collage of political ideas, domestic detail, artistic debate, poems, photographs and cuttings from newspapers and magazines, assembled, undoubtedly for posterity by one of the great writers of the century" (New Statesman and Society) |
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There are gaps, sometimes conscious; sometimes perhaps because he is away from his own desk; they become more noticeable as the journal goes on. The year 1946, for instance, is an almost complete blank, and for the last three years or ...
But if we look back to the start of Brecht's Dark Times, which really does seem to have been where he decided to become a diarist once more, then it is not difficult to imagine how Communist culture might have gone another way.
... thoughts readily become confused, and i don't at all mind saying so. it's the confusion i mind. when i discover something, i immediately contradict it passionately and to my dismay call everything into question again, when a moment ...
... say: ow! he gets a kick, let him say: ow. the simplicity of it! the bold lukács is magically attracted to the problem of ideological decline. it has become his thing. with him it is a case of a kantian developing marxist categories ...
... its calm selfconfidence, it conceals its difficulties, it gets bogged down in detail, it becomes parasitically culinary, etc. but the very works which identify its decline as a decline can scarcely be classed as decadent. but that ...
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Inhalt
24 | |
July 1941 to 5 November 1947 | 40 |
December 1947 to 20 October 1948 | 46 |
October 1948 to 18 July 1955 | 47 |
Editorial Notes | 56 |
Select Bibliography | 57 |