Review
'Deserves a place of the shelves of every public and school library.' --Times Literary Supplement
'An album of pity and anger which fixes the evil of war for all time.' --The Observer
'A modern equivalent of Goya.' --The Guardian
'An album of pity and anger which fixes the evil of war for all time.' --The Observer
'A modern equivalent of Goya.' --The Guardian
Product Description
This volume of photographs and poems was originally published by Libris in hardback in 1998 to positive reviews. It contains 85 black-and-white press photographs from World War II which Brecht himself cut out of newspapers and magazines. They date from his exile in Sweden and Finland in 1940 and 1941, but were mainly collected during his exile in the USA, from July 1941 till the end of the war. To each picture, Brecht added a four-line poem - poignant, angry, personal or political, or a combination of these. This book therefore constitutes an intriguing record of World War II from the viewpoint of one of the 20th-century's greatest and most politically-engaged poets.
About the Author
Bertold Brecht (1898-1956), the German poet and playwright, was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the USA to Switzerland in 1947, and to east Berlin in 1949. One of his country's greatest 20th century poets, among his most famous plays are 'The Threepenny Opera', 'Mother Courage', 'Life of Galileo' and 'The Caucasian Chalk-Circle'.
