Collected Short Stories Of Bertolt Brecht

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472577535

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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 : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0749399333

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Collected Short Stories by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

A collection of Brecht's 37 short stories, spanning the years 1921 to 1946. They fall into three groups - those written in Bavaria early in the 1920s, in Berlin before Hitler, and in exile up to World War II.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780567685674

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Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf

This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472579188

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Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, using the name of a Chinese contemporary of Socrates, known today as Mozi. Stimulated by his humorous aphoristic style and social focus, as well as an engrained Chinese awareness of the flow of things, Brecht developed a practical, philosophical, anti-systematic ethics, discussing Marxist dialectics, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, the Moscow trials, and the theories behind current events, while warning how ideology makes people the 'servants of priests'. Me-ti is central to an understanding of Brecht's critical reflections on Marxist dialectics and his commitment to change and the non-eternal, the philosophy which informs much of his writing and his most famous plays, such as The Good Person of Szechwan. Readers will find themselves both fascinated and beguiled by the reflections and wisdom it offers. First published in German in 1965 and now translated and edited by Antony Tatlow, Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things provides readers with a much-anticipated accessible edition of this important work. It features a substantial introduction to the concerns of the work, its genesis and context - both within Brecht's own writing and within the wider social and political history, and provides an original selection and organisation of texts. Extensive notes illuminate the work and provide commentary on related works from Brecht's oeuvre.

Author : Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231541466

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Political Responsibility by Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo Pdf

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to power. Sounding the alarm for those who care about robust forms of civic engagement, this book fights for a new conception of political responsibility that meets the challenges of today's democratic practice. Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo forcefully argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. By returning to the political, the individual is reintroduced to the binding principles of participatory democracy and the burdens of acting and thinking as a member of a collective. Vázquez-Arroyo historicizes the ethical turn to better understand its ascendence and reworks Adorno's dialectic of responsibility to reassert the political in contemporary thought and theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004404502

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Philosophizing Brecht by Anonim Pdf

This interdisciplinary anthology unites scholars with the notion that Bertolt Brecht is a missing link in bridging diverse discourses in social philosophy and aesthetics—an essential read for all those interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural theorist and theatre practitioners.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : London ; New York : Methuen
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015004706894

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Short Stories, 1921-1946 by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Bertolt Brecht short stories 1921-1946.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015051295049

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Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

The authorized translation of the collected plays includes introductions, placing each work in the context of Brecht's total output and the whole range of German literature.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472538086

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Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

The Lehrstücke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an abrupt rejection of most of the trappings of conventional theatre. The Lehrstücke are spare and highly formalized pieces intended for performance by amateurs, on the principle that the moral and political lessons contained in them can best be taught by participation in an actual production. There is nothing in the drama of the twentieth century to match the precision of their language and the economy of their theatrical technique.

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021875763

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The Brecht Memoir by Eric Bentley Pdf

An extremely personal and vitally important account of the relationship between the great playwright and the great critic--a friendship that was personally warm, politically problematic, and artistically productive. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Giles Gordon,David Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015037303073

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The Minerva Book of Short Stories 6 by Giles Gordon,David Hughes Pdf

Author : Wolf Von Eckardt,Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803296126

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Bertolt Brecht's Berlin by Wolf Von Eckardt,Sander L. Gilman Pdf

In 1936, at the age of eighteen, Wolf Von Eckardt and his mother and sister fled Berlin and came to New York. With Sander L. Gilman, he as brought into focus, through words and pictures, an uneasy era that divided two great catastrophes.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0872863832

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Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht Pdf

Fictionalized reflections on life and politics by Bertolt Brecht, the author of The Threepenny Opera. A Book Sense 76 recommendation.