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Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama, 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, Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama has a rating of 2 stars
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Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama, 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, Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
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  • Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
  • Written by author John Fuegi
  • Published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc., July 2002
  • 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
  • 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 t
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Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1Once upon a Time in Bavaria (1898-1914)1
2"Sweet and Proper Death" (1914-17)16
3"The World Has Laws Only to Be Trampled On" (1917-18)28
4"In the Most Significant Moments of the Revolution This Renowned 'Organizational Talent' Is the First to Fail" (1918-19)45
5"Cold as a Dog, a Great Being with No Human Feeling" (1919-20)54
6"Why Can't the Jews Be Got out of the Way?" (1920-21)66
7"The Still Recognized Fuhrer ... in His Augsburg Headquarters" (1921-22)79
8"Down with the Goddamned Jewish Sow, Murder Walther Rathenau" (1922)100
9"What Concern Is It of Yours That People Are Starving?" (1923-24)112
10"Jabyourknifeintohimjackhiphiphurrah" (1923-24)122
11"A Woman Must Give Up a Lot" (1924-25)137
12"The Corpses That Fell around Him Did Not Bother Him" (1925-26)153
13"Let the Tips of Your Fingers Stroke the Tips of Her Breasts" (1926-27)169
14"The Pawnbroker ... Took Anything That Might Be Useful to Him from Right and Left" (1927-28)190
15"A Robot That Stood There, Used to Coldness of the Emotions" (1928-29)204
16"His Pain at His Weakness, His Inability to Systematize Anything, Was Almost Physical" (1928-29)219
17"We'll Have to Get Rid of Them" (1929-30)232
18"Evil Ingredients, Very Finely Distributed, of Reactionary Thinking Grounded in Senseless Authority" (1930)245
19"Should Fascism Come to Power, It Will Ride over Your Skulls and Spines Like a Terrific Tank" (1931)255
20"It Was Hitler's Best Time, His Neck Was Still Slender Then and Radiated Sensuality," (1931-32)265
21"Moscow Is Convinced the Road to Soviet Germany Lies through Hitler" (1932)274
22"Let Us Speak Quite Frankly with One Another, Herr Brecht, You Have Lived a Very Rich Life at My Expense" (1933)289
23"There Are Friends One Can Run over with a 1,000-Ton Freight Train" (1933)300
24"You Have Achieved a Masterwork, Old Muck" (1933-35)314
25"I Do Not Want to Get Involved in Any of Your Hierarchical Games, No Matter How Fine" (1935-36)329
26"A Quagmire of Infamous Crimes, All of the Scum ..., All the Parasites ... Were All Nested Together" (1936-37)341
27"'Is This Signature Yours?' 'I Put It There, after Torture ... Terrible Torture.'" (1937-38)350
28"Master, What Grounds Do You Have for Your Antipathy towards Women?" (1938-39)363
29"How Can a Tiny Tree Blossom When So Much Snow Falls on It?" (1939-41)376
30"I Saw That without Me He Really Didn't Get Anything Done" (1941)387
31"I and My People ... Firmly Believe Your Wise Plan: Hitler Is Not Going to Attack Us in 1941" (1941)398
32"As Long As They Are Fighting, the War Will Stay away Forever from Our Shores" (1941-43)412
33"He's Behaved, in the Worst Word I Can Find, Like a 'Hitlerite'" (1943)424
34"For a Moment I Crossed My Fingers for Hitler" (1943-45)436
35"The Jews Have Now Had Their Six Million Deaths, Now They Should Give [Us] Some Peace" (1945)451
36"I Am Jealous, So Jealous That the Devil's Fire Is Burning All over in My Body" (1946-47)467
37"No, No, No, No, No, Never" (1947)478
38"We No Longer Stand before a Choice between Peace and War, but between Peace and Annihilation" (1947-48)487
39"Possibly the Most Powerful Scene, Emotionally, in Twentieth-Century Drama" (1948-49)500
40"A Small Hole of a Room" (1949)509
41"He Despises Us Women Deeply" (1949-50)518
42"I Regard Myself As a Criminal. I Am a Jew." (1951-53)530
43"They Have Taken My Name out with Chemicals. Out of a Handwritten Letter of Lenin!" (1953-54)546
44"Should I Wander around like a Wreck, Muttering His Poems to the Survivors?" (1954-55)562
45"He Sat on a Chair Placed at a Great Distance from Human Beings" (1954-56)574
46"Organized Schizophrenia" (1956)595
47"The Progress of the Consciousness of Freedom"610
Acknowledgments623
Notes627
Photo Credits699
Index703


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