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title: "Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Biography and Autobiography)"
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# Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Biography and Autobiography)

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Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Biography and Autobiography)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Brecht Defined
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2021*

Parker's biography may well be definitive, to the extent that such a label is valid. He foregrounds Brecht's childhood illnesses and lifelong disabilities, using them as a telescope into the artist's trajectory away from romanticism towards a highly controlled format. The liveliness of Brecht's formative adolescence and early adulthood is brought into high relief. With the largely uncredited help of his numerous paramours, Brecht's cerebral approach to political theatre revolutionized the genre as it blossomed into an international movement. Parker emphasizes the ties between the writer-director's bourgeois background, his close relationship with his infirm mother, and his love of music, all of which contributed to his early renown as a poet. The end result of Parker's extensive research and analysis is a tremendously insightful and often entertaining biographical work, despite the amount of critical analysis.

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    An original
  

*by F***X on Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2014*

A book full of insightful information about this fascinating man.There perhaps too much, we don't need to know every conversation he had , he said ,she said,etc.This is a minor point, about someone who revolutionized the theatre, who tried to go beyond just entertainment, to intellectualize and give a 'message'Brecht does not come across as a pleasant man, childish and selfish and very manipulative.However, this book is a fascinating insight into a genuine trail blazer of the arts.Well worth a read.

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    Very thorough review of Brecht's life, with detailed evidence ...
  

*by F***. on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016*

Very thorough review of Brecht's life, with detailed evidence and historical context. When I say there is some violence, it is the violent social environment of that time that Brecht had to go through, violence not generated by him. His biography tells us why he wrote the way he did at that particular moment, and transformed what was temporary into an all time lesson for humanity. Reading the book one feels as if one would have personally met this rather small man in physical terms, but a giant thinker, and a true revolutionary.

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