“Provocation? our spectator may ask. Yes indeed, provocation to thought. Provocation to what Brecht regarded as the most pleasurable of human activities—learning, co-production, and fruitful criticism.”
Ewen paints a vivid portrait of Brecht the man, his life in Weimar Germany, and his fight against the rapidly emerging Nazi philosophy in the late twenties and early thirties. Here is Brecht the cigar-smoking iconoclast, the molder of new dramatic forms, whose rapier wit shattered tradition and pomposity. Here is Brecht the poet, playwright, theoretician of the drama, story-teller, thinker, and creator of the world's most finely-tuned acting company, the Berliner Ensemble.
Author: Frederic Ewen
Title: Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art, and His Times
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: The Citadel Press, 1967
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 573p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, moderate rubbing to surfaces, and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine very clean with mild edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and square. Pages toned.
Comments: Very nice copy
