Book description
This book contains selected poems, plays, and prose by Bertolt Brecht taken from various points throughout his career. It includes translations of two prose works and provides some background information on Brecht's life and career.
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I have to put Brecht on this list. Which Brecht? I donât know, but I find myself coming back to the Journals more often than anything else. These record his responses to the world between 1934 and 1955, but the war years are the most gripping.
Once more, it is the seamlessness with which art and politics come together that characterizes Brechtâs achievement. Brecht is the touchstone, the rock, the ground to which I often return. Brechtâs proseâconcrete, direct, transparentâhas had more effect on me than any other author. I call it not just âgetting to the pointâ but âgettingâŠ
From Todd's list on art and politics belong together.
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