Research Catalog

Title

Brecht and company : sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama / John Fuegi.

Author

Fuegi, John

Publication

New York : Grove Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 732 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists - and the people upon whom he built his reputation. A noted Brecht scholar, John Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. A landmark study about the life and times of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century theater, Brecht and Co. will forever change our understanding of Brecht and his oeuvre.

Alternative Title

Brecht & Co.

Subjects

• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
• Biographies
• Authors, German > 20th century > Biography
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 > Friends and associates

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [627]-697) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Once upon a Time in Bavaria (1898-1914) -- "Sweet and Proper Death" (1914-17) -- "The World Has Laws Only to Be Trampled On" (1917-18) -- "In the Most Significant Moments of the Revolution This Renowned 'Organizational Talent' Is the First to Fail" (1918-19) -- "Cold as a Dog, a Great Being with No Human Feeling" (1919-20) -- "Why Can't the Jews Be Got out of the Way?" (1920-21) -- "The Still Recognized Fuhrer ... in His Augsburg Headquarters" (1921-22) -- "Down with the Goddamned Jewish Sow, Murder Walther Rathenau" (1922) -- "What Concern Is It of Yours That People Are Starving?" (1923-24) -- "Jabyourknifeintohimjackhiphiphurrah" (1923-24) -- "A Woman Must Give Up a Lot" (1924-25) -- "The Corpses That Fell around Him Did Not Bother Him" (1925-26) -- "Let the Tips of Your Fingers Stroke the Tips of Her Breasts" (1926-27) -- "The Pawnbroker ... Took Anything That Might Be Useful to Him from Right and Left" (1927-28) --^
• "A Robot That Stood There, Used to Coldness of the Emotions" (1928-29) -- "His Pain at His Weakness, His Inability to Systematize Anything, Was Almost Physical" (1928-29) -- "We'll Have to Get Rid of Them" (1929-30) -- "Evil Ingredients, Very Finely Distributed, of Reactionary Thinking Grounded in Senseless Authority" (1930) -- "Should Fascism Come to Power, It Will Ride over Your Skulls and Spines Like a Terrific Tank" (1931) -- "It Was Hitler's Best Time, His Neck Was Still Slender Then and Radiated Sensuality," (1931-32) -- "Moscow Is Convinced the Road to Soviet Germany Lies through Hitler" (1932) -- "Let Us Speak Quite Frankly with One Another, Herr Brecht, You Have Lived a Very Rich Life at My Expense" (1933) -- "There Are Friends One Can Run over with a 1,000-Ton Freight Train" (1933) -- "You Have Achieved a Masterwork, Old Muck" (1933-35) -- "I Do Not Want to Get Involved in Any of Your Hierarchical Games, No Matter How Fine" (1935-36) --^
• "A Quagmire of Infamous Crimes, All of the Scum ..., All the Parasites ... Were All Nested Together" (1936-37) -- ''Is This Signature Yours?' 'I Put It There, after Torture ... Terrible Torture.'" (1937-38) -- "Master, What Grounds Do You Have for Your Antipathy towards Women?" (1938-39) -- "How Can a Tiny Tree Blossom When So Much Snow Falls on It?" (1939-41) -- "I Saw That without Me He Really Didn't Get Anything Done" (1941) -- "I and My People ... Firmly Believe Your Wise Plan: Hitler Is Not Going to Attack Us in 1941" (1941) -- "As Long As They Are Fighting, the War Will Stay away Forever from Our Shores" (1941-43) -- "He's Behaved, in the Worst Word I Can Find, Like a 'Hitlerite'" (1943) -- "For a Moment I Crossed My Fingers for Hitler" (1943-45) -- "The Jews Have Now Had Their Six Million Deaths, Now They Should Give [Us] Some Peace" (1945) -- "I Am Jealous, So Jealous That the Devil's Fire Is Burning All over in My Body" (1946-47) -- "No, No, No, No, No, Never" (1947) --^
• "We No Longer Stand before a Choice between Peace and War, but between Peace and Annihilation" (1947-48) -- "Possibly the Most Powerful Scene, Emotionally, in Twentieth-Century Drama" (1948-49) -- "A Small Hole of a Room" (1949) -- "He Despises Us Women Deeply" (1949-50) -- "I Regard Myself As a Criminal. I Am a Jew." (1951-53) -- "They Have Taken My Name out with Chemicals. Out of a Handwritten Letter of Lenin!" (1953-54) -- "Should I Wander around like a Wreck, Muttering His Poems to the Survivors?" (1954-55) -- "He Sat on a Chair Placed at a Great Distance from Human Beings" (1954-56) -- "Organized Schizophrenia" (1956) -- "The Progress of the Consciousness of Freedom"

ISBN

0802139108 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002725590

OCLC

• 50647646
• SCSB-10922767

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library