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The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and
playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a
powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in
Germany, Benjamin and Brecht both independently minded Marxists
with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the
emancipatory potential of cultural practices continued to discuss,
argue and correspond on topics as varied as Fascism and the work of
Franz Kafka. Faced by the onset of the 'midnight of the century',
with the Nazi subversion of the Weimar Republic in Germany and the
Stalinist degeneration of the revolution in Russia, both men, in
their own way, strove to keep alive the tradition of dialectical
critique of the existing order and radical intervention in the
world to transform it. In Understanding Brecht we find collected
together Benjamin's most sensitive and probing writing on the
dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor. Stimulated by
Brecht's oeuvre and theorising his particular dramatic
techniques-such as the famous 'estrangement effect'-Benjamin
developed his own ideas about the role of art and the artist in
crisis-ridden society. This volume contains Benjamin's
introductions to Brecht's theory or epic theatre and close textual
analyses of twelve poems by Brecht (printed in translation here)
which exemplify Benjamin's insistence that literary form and
content are indivisible. Elsewhere Benjamin discusses the plays The
Mother, Terror and Misery of the Third Reich, and The Threepenny
Opera, digressing for some general remarks on Marx and satire. Here
we also find Benjamin's masterful essay "The Author as Producer" as
well as an extract from his diaries that records the intense
conversations held in the late 1930s in Denmark (Brecht's place of
exile) between the two most important cultural theorists of this
century. In these discussions, the two men talked of subjects as
diverse as the work of Franz Kafka, the unfolding Soviet Trials,
and the problems of literary work on the edge of international war.
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Imprint: |
Verso Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2024 |
Authors: |
Walter Benjamin
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Introduction by: |
Stanley Mitchell
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Translators: |
Anna Bostock
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
144 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80429-479-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80429-479-9 |
Barcode: |
9781804294796 |
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