Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55Bloomsbury Publishing, 14.07.2016 - 576 Seiten "Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and America, and his return via Switzerland to East Berlin. His criticisms of the work of other writers and intellectuals are perceptive and polemic, and the accounts of his own writing practice provide insight into the creation of his dramatic works of the period, the development of his political thinking and his theories about epic theatre. Also integrated into the journals are Brecht's immediate reactions to and commentary upon the events of the period: his political exile's view of the course of World War II and his account of the House Un-American Activities committee."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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... Nazi invaders of Denmark, the watchdogs of the Communist Party, his household, the women closest to him? About these last he says very little – much less than in the earlier diary – and maybe he meant to control his utterances about ...
... Nazi invaders of Denmark, the watchdogs of the Communist Party, his household, the women closest to him? About these last he says very little – much less than in the earlier diary – and maybe he meant to control his utterances about ...
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... Nazis took over Austria, his wife's country; her family were Jewish. In France the Popular Front was already in ... Nazi Germany, where the Second World War was already being brewed. Three years had passed since his visit to Moscow ...
... Nazis took over Austria, his wife's country; her family were Jewish. In France the Popular Front was already in ... Nazi Germany, where the Second World War was already being brewed. Three years had passed since his visit to Moscow ...
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... Nazis and Fascists, and opposed not just in a philosophically or aesthetically defined sense, but by a recognisably liberal, concerned and forward-looking attitude which appeared to be common to its practitioners across all frontiers ...
... Nazis and Fascists, and opposed not just in a philosophically or aesthetically defined sense, but by a recognisably liberal, concerned and forward-looking attitude which appeared to be common to its practitioners across all frontiers ...
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... Nazi attack on “degeneracy' in the visual arts and music as demonstrated in two massive exhibitions around that same time, whose argument closely matched the Moscow rejection of modern idioms. Nor does he take in the political aspect ...
... Nazi attack on “degeneracy' in the visual arts and music as demonstrated in two massive exhibitions around that same time, whose argument closely matched the Moscow rejection of modern idioms. Nor does he take in the political aspect ...
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... – by the anti-Nazi refugees of the Zurich Schauspielhaus, who in spring 1941 had staged Mother Courage. Fritz Lang gives him his big send-off with the resistance film Hangmen Also Die for which he writes the story and.
... – by the anti-Nazi refugees of the Zurich Schauspielhaus, who in spring 1941 had staged Mother Courage. Fritz Lang gives him his big send-off with the resistance film Hangmen Also Die for which he writes the story and.
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