Bøker av Bertolt Brecht

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Det gode mennesket fra Sichuan er et av Bertolt Brechts mest sentrale verk, sammen med blant andre Den kaukasiske krittsirkel, Mor Courage og barna hennes og Tolvskillingsoperaen. Stykket ble skrevet og omskrevet i perioden 1927-1943 og bygger på østasiatiske fabler. Her belyses evig tilbakevendende spørsmål om hva som kjennetegner et godt menneske, om det i det hele tatt finnes, og hva kjærlighet er. Kan det gode mennesket eksistere i en rå og brutal verden hvor alt dreier seg om å overleve fra dag til dag, og kan kjærligheten gro under slike forhold?

100 dikt møtes to store og steile poeter: Bertolt Brecht, født 1898, død i Øst-Berlin i 1956, og Georg Johannesen, født 1931, død i Egypt julaften 2005. Begge utmerker seg ved sin retoriske strenghet, sin dialektiske tenkning, sitt hat til skjønnmaling og uforpliktende tale, ved sin både kjølige og lidenskapelige rettferdighetssans. Begge fremdyrket et lyrisk språk preget av resonnerende saklighet, paradokser og en billedbruk som er konsis og intrikat på en gang. Når Johannesen gjendikter Brecht, blir tonefallet uvegerlig riktig; han hører nesten like mye hjemme i Brechts poesi som i sin egen: (fra Henning Hagerups forord).

Bertolt Brechts lyrikk er preget av en usedvanlig bredde. Han skrev alt fra enkle barnedikt til kinesisk inspirerte kortdikt og modernistiske dikt. Legg så til parodier, elegier, politiske pamfletter, poesi på heksameter og sonetter, så får man en anelse om variasjonsrikdommen. Så vel klassiske myter som politiske hendelser blir underlagt poetens skarpe penn i dikt som fremdeles taler direkte til leseren. Utvalget inkluderer sonetter om emigrasjon og erotikk, diktsuiter som «Lesebok for byfolk», samt betraktninger fra og om eksil- og flyktningtilværelsen i så vel Hollywood som Øst-Tyskland. Selv uten sin rike dramatikk-produksjon ville Brecht fremstå som en av århundrets største poeter.

Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.

The leading scholarly publication on Brecht; volume 43 contains a wealth of articles on diverse topics and a reconstruction of the two-chorus version of The Exception and the Rule.

A wholly revised, re-edited and expanded edition of one of the seminal texts of twentieth century theatre. Featuring new translations, additional texts, illustrations and editorial matter, this is a fullest and clearest account yet of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics.

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. Of "Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art, His Times, the critics wrote: "The finest critical study of Brecht to date. This book is at least a worthy appreciation of a towering, poetic and dramatic genius." -Los Angeles Times "What is particularly striking about Frederic Ewen's biography is that it conveys the excitement, the turmoil and triumph of Brecht's career." -The New York Times "The great thing about Frederic Ewen's luminous biography is that it gently frees Brecht from the bear hugs of the bigots and restores him to us as a whole man, his youth contained in his age." -The Nation

"This publication was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, India"--page facing title page.

"A selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners"--Page 4 of cover.

A new paperback edition of what is arguably Brecht's finest comedy, featuring an extensive introduction and commentary and Brecht's own notes.

Brecht is an important lyrical voice of the 20th century, and is honoured as Germany's greatest modern poet. Yet his poetry is relativley little known in the English speaking world. This title takes its cue from a poem about the artist's legacy and looks at how Brecht's work might read today.

Volume four of "Brecht's Collected Plays" contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as Brecht's own life. The plays included tackle the Nazi race policy and life under Hitler, the Spanish Civil War and pacifism.

Long in preparation, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages.

This volume contains a selection of Brecht's last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. It contains 'The Antigone of Sophocles', 'The Days of the Commune', 'Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress'.

Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile and his return to East Berlin. The accounts of his writing practice provide insight into the creation of his dramatic works, the development of his political thinking and his theories about epic theatre.

This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year.

This volume brings together two of Brecht's most studied and performed plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children together with full editorial apparatus and Brecht's own notes and textual variants.

Written between 1939-1942 "The Messingkauf Dialogues" are among the most concise, witty and light-hearted of all Brecht's theoretical discussions of theatre.

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.