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Bertolt Brecht: Writings
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Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1967, Frederic Ewen's monumental biographical study of Bertolt Brecht has long been out of print. In response to national demand, Citadel Press is proud to reissue this complete and unabridged text.
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Brecht successfully makes use of the political grotesque. This is realized by the persistent repetition of the same word or line, even of whole verses. There are cases where the whole poem is built on the basis of the grotesque, as in the short poem 'Children's Crusade'. His grotesque has clear social thought. This is given to it by its summing-up, by the resolution of the poem, in the final two lines.
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POETRY was for Brecht something he did on the side, almost a vice, a peccadillo. He didn’t want it to be his living, but was helpless to prevent it from remaining his primary expression. It was his mode of thought, of scrutiny, of play. This, I think, is what he meant when he said that the best argument against his drama was his poetry: the one deliberate, stylized, engineered and engineering – Brecht endlessly revised his plays to bring them ideologically into conformity with what was expected of them – the other anarchic, intelligent and trustworthy. The mere range of subjects, of occasions, is reassuring. His poetry flourished like a weed, out of control.
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Brecht wordt als zoon van Berthold Friedrich en Sofie Brecht (geboren Brezing) geboren. Hij komt uit een gegoede familie; zijn vader is directeur van een papierfabriek. In zijn jeugd is hij een teruggetrokken en ziekelijk kind. De jonge Brecht wordt Eugen genoemd, de roepnaam Bertolt of Berthold kiest hij zelf pas later. Na de lagere school (Volksschule) bezoekt hij het Peutinger-Realgymnasium in Augsburg, dat hij in 1917 met een Notabitur afsluit. Op school is hij actief in het schooltoneel en al in die tijd – op jonge leeftijd – is hij een kritisch theatermaker.
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Brecht is subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He testifies that he is not a member of the communist party. On the same day of this interrogation, Brecht leaves the U.S.
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Brecht is less novel than he is supposed to be. His drama owes much to a wide range of theatrical conventions: Elizabethan, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Greek idea of Chorus, Austrian and Bavarian folk-plays, techniques of clowns and fairground entertainers.
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