Brecht: A Biography

New York: Seabury Press; A Continuum Book, 1978. Cloth, 412 pages, [13] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Translation of Bertolt Brecht, eine Biographie. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket partly sunned. CONTENTS: PT. I. AUGSBURG AND MUNICH. Childhood and youth; Augsburg (1); Augsburg (2); Baal-an analysis; The Lord of the South Sea and the Lord of the North sea; Towards an epic theatre; In the Jungle of the Cities-an analysis; PT. II. MARXIST STUDIES. I am at home in the asphalt city; Sociological experiments; Man is Man; Plays for the theater am Schiffbauerdamm; Study of Marxism; Saint Joan of the Stockyards; In praise of dialectics; PT. III. EXILE. FLIGHT; Under the Danish Thatch; Moscow 1935; London; But why be afraid of what is new?; Short digression on the play Round Heads and Pointed Heads; Let us not speak only for culture; The realism debate; On a little island where the people are friendly; Waiting for passports; Herr Puntila and his Servant Matti; Hollywood; New York, 57th Street; Interrogation; PT. IV. BEFORE US LIE THE TOILS OF THE PLAINS. ZURICH; Away with the old state, bring on the new!; My pupils and friends; The truth unites; Turandot or The Congress of Whitewashers; A great time, wasted.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.