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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863835 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100492370 02 0872863832 03 9780872863835 15 9780872863835 BC 1 A01 Brecht, Bertolt Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was the author of <i>The Threepenny Opera</i> , <i>Mahagonny</i> , <i>Mother Courage</i> , <i>The Life of Galileo</i> as well as many other plays, poems, and theoretical writings. Ardent antifascist, friend to Walter Benjamin, and wily ally of the Communists, Brecht was often on the run, "changing countries more often than shoes." As Hitler's armies advanced, Brecht fled to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and the U.S. before finally settling in East Germany after the war, where he became director of the renowned Berliner Ensemble. 2 B06 Chalmers, Martin Martin Chalmers Martin Chalmers has translated works by Victor Klemperer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hubert Fichte, and Elfriede Jelinek, among others. Mr. Chalmers lives in London, where he writes extensively on German literature, film, history, and culture. 01 eng 128 00 128 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy European Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 01 <P>Bertolt Brecht's <I>Stories of Mr. Keuner</I> is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more often than shoes." An ardent antifascist, Brecht roamed across Europe just ahead of Hitler's armies-only to wind up poolside in Los Angeles and then interrogated by Senator Joe McCarthy's infamous committee.</P><P><B>Bertolt Brecht </B>wrote <I>The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, The Life of Galileo</I>, and many other plays. A major poet of the twentieth century, Brecht also wrote extensively on the theater. At war's end, Brecht became director of the renowned Berliner Ensemble in East Germany.</P> 02 Bertolt Brecht's Stories of Mr. Keuner is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more... 08 "<i>Stories of Mr. Keuner</i> finally puts in English translation this startling and stunning body of work, not only encouraging a broader appreciation of a playwright famed for fighting inhumanity in his time, but also effectively questioning integrity in our own day." San Francisco Chronicle Book Review 08 "The first English translation of the great playwright’s discursive semifictionalized observations on German life and politics, as spoken by the eponymous Keuner (his name from the German "keiner," meaning "no man"), a "thinking man" obviously inspired by Plato’s Socrates. Written between the 1920s and ‘50s (and collected for the first publication in 1956, the year of Brecht’s death), they’re brief (often single-paragraph) aperçus generally employed to deflate contemporary pretensions regarding religion, patriotism, capitalism, exile, and other themes engaged more fully in their author’s celebrated poems and plays (e.g., "I am for justice; so it’s good if the place in which I’m staying has more than one exit"), but most effectively adumbrated in this revealing coda to an indisputably major, and still challenging, body of work." Kirkus Reviews 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100492370/images/87286100492370L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100492370/images/87286100492370S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100492370 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20010701 01 7 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 20010701 01 02 9.95 USD