Bertolt Brecht : a literary life /
Charts Brecht's complex evolution as a political artist and his struggles with cultural bureaucracies.
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.