Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile write by Ronald Speirs. This book was released on 2000-11-02. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyse Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later Germany poets.
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht write by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 2018-12-04. The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Times Literary Supplement • Books of the Year ("The most generous available English collection of Brecht’s poetry.") A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most extensive English translation of Brecht’s poetry to date. Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath.” Hugely prolific, Brecht also wrote more than two thousand poems—though fewer than half were published in his lifetime, and early translations were heavily censored. Now, award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have heroically translated more than 1,200 poems in the most comprehensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date. Written between 1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate Brecht’s unquenchable “love of life, the desire for better and more of it,” and reflect the technical virtuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the untrammeled forces of love and erotic desire. A monumental achievement and a reclamation, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is a must-have for any lover of twentieth-century poetry.
Bertolt Brecht in Context
Bertolt Brecht in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bertolt Brecht in Context write by Stephen Brockmann. This book was released on 2021-06-10. Bertolt Brecht in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he emerged in imperial Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as Brecht's response to the turbulent German history of the twentieth century: World Wars One and Two, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the experience of exile, and ultimately the division of Germany into two competing political blocs divided by the postwar Iron Curtain. Throughout this turbulence, and in spite of it, Brecht managed to remain extraordinarily productive, revolutionizing the theater of the twentieth century and developing a new approach to language and performance. Because of his unparalleled radicalism and influence, Brecht remains controversial to this day. This book – with a Foreword by Mark Ravenhill – lays out in clear and accessible language the shape of Brecht's contribution and the reasons for his ongoing influence.
Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations
Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations write by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 2019-10-17. Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their world views, their voices and their social experience clash horribly, but they find they have unexpected common ground – especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile, the bureaucracy, and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts. Their conversations are light and swift moving, the subjects under discussion extremely various: beer, cigars, the Germans' love of order, their education and experience of life, art, pornography, politics, 'great men', morality, seriousness, Switzerland, America ... despite the circumstances of both characters there is a wonderfully whimsical serendipity about their dialogue, the logic and the connections often delightfully absurd. This edition features a full introduction and notes by Professor Tom Kuhn (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK).
Poems, 1913-1956
Poems, 1913-1956 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poems, 1913-1956 write by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 1987. Poems, 1913-1956 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 50 years since his death, the importance and scale of Brecht's poetry has only now begun to be recognized. This work showcases a selection from the whole range of his works, conveying his masterful command of different forms and styles, as well as the evolution of his interests and concerns.
