Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Biography and Autobiography) - Hardcover

Parker, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408155621 ISBN 13: 9781408155622

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2014

Synopsis

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons.

Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry.

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

About this title

Book Description:

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life, now in paperback, is the definitive, critically lauded biography of the great 20th century writer and theatre artist, described by Michael Hofmann in the TLS as "that rare thing, not only the biography of a genius, but itself a biography of genius".

About the Author:

Stephen Parker is Henry Simon Professor of German at the University of Manchester and was Leverhulme Research Fellow (2009-12). His publications include Sinn und Form: The Anatomy of a Literary Journal, The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German Literature 1930-1960 (both co-authored), Peter Huchel: A Literary Life in 20th-Century Germany and he contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1408155621
• ISBN 13: 9781408155622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 704