Format:
120 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
ISBN:
9781350045002
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9781350044999
Uniform Title:
Flüchtlingsgespräche
Content:
"Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their world views, their voices and their social experience clash horribly, but they find they have unexpected common ground - especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile, the bureaucracy, and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts. Their conversations are light and swift moving, the subjects under discussion extremely various: beer, cigars, the Germans' love of order, their education and experience of life, art, pornography, politics, 'great men', morality, seriousness, Switzerland, America ... despite the circumstances of both characters there is a wonderfully whimsical serendipity about their dialogue, the logic and the connections often delightfully absurd."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Fragmentary texts belonging to "Refugee Conversations" Seite 96-114. - Notes Seite 115-120. - Concordance Seite nach 120
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePDF ISBN 978-1-350-04502-6
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, eBook ISBN 978-1-350-04501-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 Flüchtlingsgespräche
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
Programmheft
Author information:
Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956
Author information:
Kuhn, Tom 1957-
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