Bertolt Brecht: a literary life

by Parker, Stephen, (Stephen R.)

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Charts Brecht's complex evolution as a political artist and his struggles with cultural bureaucracies.

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Full title :Bertolt Brecht : a literary life / Stephen Parker.

Summary

Charts Brecht's complex evolution as a political artist and his struggles with cultural bureaucracies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 689 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781408155622, 1408155621
oclc:ocn870256805
LC Classification:PT2603.R397
Dewey Decimal:832.9

Lyrical awakening. The Brechts 1898-1903 ; Church, school, sickness 1903-12 ; Precocity 1912-14 ; The heroism and the madness of war 1914-16 ; Bert Brecht and his friends 1916-17 -- Dramatic iconoclast. To be the greatest dramatist 1917-18 ; The medical orderly and the revolution 1918-19 ; The 'lost' Brecht sons 1919-21 ; Brecht in love 1921 ; Cold Chicago 1921-2 ; The theatrical genius 1922-4 ; At the watershed 1924-7 ; Monumental success 1927-8 -- Marxist heretic. To be a true comrade : surviving the storm as the smallest magnitude 1928-9 ; Government by emergency decree 1929-31 ; Solidarity with the working class 1931-3 ; Into exile from Nazi Germany 1933 ; Svendborg 1933-4 ; London, Moscow and New York : Stanislavsky's pre-eminence 1934-6 ; Anti-fascism and the show trials 1936-8 -- Chastened survivor. Survival in an age of reaction 1938-9 ; Flight eastward to the west 1939-41 ; Disgust 1941-2 ; Ever the enemy alien 1942-5 -- Contentious master. After the dark times : the Cold War 1945-7 ; Hydratopyranthropos surveys the wreckage 1947-9 ; The quest for acclaim : issues of authority 1949-51 ; Leadership struggles : correct the heretic? 1951-3 ; The new age of the theatre 1953-6.

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(ukslc)Biography Authors, German Authors, German -- Biography. -- 20th c… Biographie Biographies Biography Brecht, Bertolt collective biographies Dramatists, German Dramatists, German -- Biography. -- 20t… Écrivains allemands -- Biographies. -- …