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The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar (Hardcover)
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The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar (Hardcover)
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Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an
aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius
Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his
planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory
views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt
businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail -
as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying
to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave?
Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political
and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of
imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a
sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to
our own times. Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant
vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the
past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is
confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than
passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr
Julius Caesar. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and
features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and
Tom Kuhn.
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