Research Catalog

Title

Collected stories / Bertolt Brecht ; edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim ; translated by Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison, and Antony Tatlow ; with a new introduction by Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao.

Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

Publication

New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Little, Brown, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Willett, John
• Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992
• Kapp, Yvonne, 1903-
• Rorrison, Hugh
• Tatlow, Antony
• Willett, John, 1917-2002

Description

xi, 242 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great twentieth century innovators in theater - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - 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.
• In this volume, reprinted for the Brecht centenary, the joint editors of Brecht's work in English have collected the complete short stories, including the prize-winning "The Monster," and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written by Brecht, "Life Story of the Boxer Samson-Korner." Brecht scholars Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao have contributed a new introduction and brought the original editorial notes up to date with the latest scholarship.

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Translations.
• Short stories

Note

• Originally published: London : Methuen, 1983.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bargan gives up -- Story on a ship -- The revelation -- The foolish wife -- The blind man -- A helping hand -- Java Meier -- The Lance-Sergeant -- Message in a bottle -- A mean bastard -- The death of Cesare Malatesta -- The answer -- Before the blood -- Conversation about the South Seas -- Letter about a mastiff -- Hook to the chin -- Muller's natural attitude -- North Sea shrimps -- Bad water -- A little tale of insurance -- Four men and a poker game -- Barbara -- The Good Lord's package -- The monster -- The job -- Safety first -- The soldier of La Coitat -- A mistake -- Gaumer and Irk -- Socrates wounded -- The experiment -- The heretic's coat -- Lucullus's trophies -- The unseemly old lady -- A question of state -- The Augsburg chalk circle -- Two sons.

ISBN

1559704020

LCCN

^^^97043476^

OCLC

• 37890478
• SCSB-11977125

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library