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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... seems to have been written for fun, for the pleasures of language, with little attention to eventual publishers or ordinary readers. Its later and larger successor is much less spontaneous. This is typewritten, recognisably by Brecht ...
... seems to have been written for fun, for the pleasures of language, with little attention to eventual publishers or ordinary readers. Its later and larger successor is much less spontaneous. This is typewritten, recognisably by Brecht ...
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... seems quite to have lost interest in The Round Heads and the Pointed Heads after its Danish première. He does however tell us a lot about his fellow exiles, gives vivid glimpses of his own family, comments sharply on Californian life ...
... seems quite to have lost interest in The Round Heads and the Pointed Heads after its Danish première. He does however tell us a lot about his fellow exiles, gives vivid glimpses of his own family, comments sharply on Californian life ...
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... play Waiting for Lefty and seems to have made something of a disciple of Marc Blitzstein. But with the excepIntroduction xiii tion of the designer, Max Gorelik, he alienated virtually xii Brecht Between Two World Systems.
... play Waiting for Lefty and seems to have made something of a disciple of Marc Blitzstein. But with the excepIntroduction xiii tion of the designer, Max Gorelik, he alienated virtually xii Brecht Between Two World Systems.
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... seems always to be aiming at the conventional American portals to fame: Broadway and the movies. Meantime his real progress is taking place on the other side of the Atlantic, with the production of his big Scandinavian plays – Galileo ...
... seems always to be aiming at the conventional American portals to fame: Broadway and the movies. Meantime his real progress is taking place on the other side of the Atlantic, with the production of his big Scandinavian plays – Galileo ...
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... seems to have noticed this incipient class consciousness, for he often says on the phone, when he is cancelling an appointment, that with his job he has work to do – just as any boss might. whenever he can, he makes mock of his ...
... seems to have noticed this incipient class consciousness, for he often says on the phone, when he is cancelling an appointment, that with his job he has work to do – just as any boss might. whenever he can, he makes mock of his ...
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