Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht

ISBN-13: 9781472577511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 344 str.

Bertolt Brecht; USA) Madison Marc Silberman (University of Wisconsin;John Willett

Opis

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short stories written by Brecht, including the prize-winning 'The Monster', and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written by Brecht, 'Life Story of the boxer Samson-Korner'. Brecht scholar Marc Silberman provides an introduction and editorial notes.Fans of Brecht will find in the 37 stories assembled here the same directness, lack of affectation, and wry humour that characterise his plays. Every lover of short stories will discover an unexpected trove of pleasure in this "mine for short-story addicts" (Observer).

Recenzje

Casual wickedness, moral hypocrisy, determined self-interest - such are the familiar residents of Brecht's milieu . . .in this complete collection of his known finished stories . . . Chilling perfection. Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

IntroductionThe Bavarian Stories (1920-1924)Barvan gives upStory on a ShipThe RevelationThe Foolish WifeThe Blind ManA Helping HandJava MeierThe Lance-SergeantMessage in a BottleA Mean BastardThe Death of Cesare MalatestaThe Berlin Stories (1924-1933)The AnswerBefore the FloodConversation about the South SeasLetter about a MastiffHook to the ChinMüller's Natural AttitudeNorth Sea ShrimpsBad WaterA Little Tale of InsuranceFour Men and a Poker GameBarbaraThe Good Lord's PackageThe MonsterThe JobStories Written in Exile (1934-1948)Safety FirstThe Soldier of La CiotatA MistakeGaumer and IrkSocrates WoundedThe ExperimentThe Heretic's CoatLucullus's TrophiesThe Unseemly Old LadyA Question of TasteThe Augsburg Chalk CircleTwo SonsAppendixLife Story of the Boxer Samson-KörnerEditorial NotesThe Principle Collections of Brecht's Short StoriesNotes on the Individual StoriesIndex of Titles in German

O autorze

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. John Willett (1917-2002) was the greatest English language authority on Brecht the writer and man of the theatre. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer. Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85. Marc Silberman is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is the co-editor of the completely revised and updated third edition of Brecht on Theatre and of Brecht on Performance (both 2014), and editor of Brecht on Film & Radio.