Bertolt Brecht A Literary Life

Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408155639

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Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker Pdf

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408155621

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Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker Pdf

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

Author : Edward Sorel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0747582874

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Literary Lives by Edward Sorel Pdf

Presents biographies by the acclaimed caricaturist Edward Sorel, who has long believed, that next to composers, writers are the craziest people in the world.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408160916

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Life Of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared into publicly abjuring his theories but, despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, eventually helping to smuggle his writings out of the country. As an examination of the problems that face not only the scientist but also the whole spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of government or official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals. Written in exile in 1937-9 and first performed in Zurich in 1943, Galileo was first staged in English in 1947 by Joseph Losey in a version jointly prepared by Brecht and Charles Laughton, who played the title role. Printed here is the complete translation by John Willett.

Author : John Fuegi
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802139108

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Brecht and Company by John Fuegi Pdf

The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists -- and the people upon whom he built his reputation. A noted Brecht scholar, John Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. A landmark study about the life and times of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century theater, Brecht and Co. will forever change our understanding of Brecht and his oeuvre. "[An] enormous, fascinating biography." -- The New Yorker "One of the most important critical studies of the century." -- New York Magazine

Author : Philip John Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014881398

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The Poetry of Brecht by Philip John Thomson Pdf

Though not a survey of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, this book covers the major periods in his work and most of its major themes as well. Each of the seven chapters deals with a segment from Brecht's considerably poetic opus. A central characteristic of Brecht's poetry is its dual function, as self-revelation and self-concealment. This emerges most clearly in the poet's relationship to his reader for whom Brecht dons a variety of guises, plays a variety of roles, and speaks in a variety of voices. Thomson's methodology is pluralist, although he includes a discussion of how reader-response theory can be harnessed to the task of interpreting Brecht's poetry. Various means of interpretation and analysis are used, depending on which seems to yield the most information and insight. The only reading of Brecht's poetry categorically refused is the one that accepts it at face value as a record of Brecht's life experience. Despite outward appearances, Brecht is a devious writer, and nowhere more so than in his poetry, where he most immediately presents himself to his public.

Author : Betty Nance Weber,Hubert Heinen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820334783

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Bertolt Brecht by Betty Nance Weber,Hubert Heinen Pdf

First published in 1980, this collection of fifteen original essays touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their impact on contemporary literature, theater, and film. Discussed are Brecht's confrontation with Marxism and its political manifestations, the influence of his work on film and theater practitioners, the uses his literary descendants have made of his political commitment, and much more.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871407689

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The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

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.

Author : Mati Unt
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785329

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Brecht at Night by Mati Unt Pdf

"One of the most influential modernist, and latterly postmodernist, authors in Estonia." Context

Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408155646

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Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker Pdf

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

Author : Ela E. Gezen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781640140240

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Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature by Ela E. Gezen Pdf

Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.

Author : James K. Lyon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400855902

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Bertolt Brecht in America by James K. Lyon Pdf

This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871404930

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Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a hugely prolific and eclectic poet, producing more than 2,000 poems during his lifetime—indeed, so many that even his own wife, Helene Weigel, had no idea just how many he had written. "A thieving magpie of much of world literature," the full scope and variety of his poetic output did not become apparent until after his death. Now, the English-speaking world can access part of his stunning body of work in Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate Brecht's poetic legacy into English. Love Poems collects his most intimate and romantic poems, many of which were banned in German in the 1950s for their explicit eroticism. Written between 1918 and 1955, these poems reflect an artist driven not only by the bitter and violent politics of his age but, like Goethe, by the untrammeled forces of love, romance, and erotic desire. In a 1966 New Yorker article, Hannah Arendt wrote of Brecht that he had "staked his life and his art as few poets have ever done." In these 78 poems, we see Brecht's astonishing and deeply personal love poems—including 22 never before published in English—many addressed to particular women, which show Brecht as lover and love poet, engaged in a bitter struggle to keep faith, hope, and love alive during desperate times. Featuring a personal foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall, his last surviving child, Love Poems reveals Brecht as not merely one of the most famous playwrights of the twentieth century but also one of its most fiercely creative poets.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472577528

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Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short stories written by Brecht, including the prize-winning 'The Monster', and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written by Brecht, 'Life Story of the boxer Samson-Körner'. Brecht scholar Marc Silberman provides an introduction and editorial notes. Fans of Brecht will find in the 37 stories assembled here the same directness, lack of affectation, and wry humour that characterise his plays. Every lover of short stories will discover an unexpected trove of pleasure in this "mine for short-story addicts" (Observer).

Author : Frederic Ewen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:903352460

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Bertolt Brecht by Frederic Ewen Pdf