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Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations (Paperback)
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Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations (Paperback)
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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. This edition features a full introduction and notes by
Professor Tom Kuhn (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK).
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