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Stories of Mr. Keuner / Bertolt Brecht ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Martin Chalmers.
- Title
- Stories of Mr. Keuner / Bertolt Brecht ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Martin Chalmers.
- Author
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
- Publication
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Chalmers, Martin
- Description
- viii, 111 p.; 18 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner. English
- Alternative Title
- Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner.
- Stories of Mister Keuner
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Translations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 110).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What's wise about the wise man is his stance -- Organization -- Measures against power -- Of the bearers of knowledge -- Serving a purpose -- Hardships of the best -- Not bribing is an art -- Love of fatherland, the hatred of fatherlands -- The bad is not cheap, either -- Going hungry -- Advice, when advice is not heeded --Originality -- The question of whether there is a God -- The right to weakness -- The helpless boy -- Mr. K. and nature -- Convincing questions -- Reliability -- Meeting again -- On the selection of brutes -- Form and content -- Conversations -- Hospitality -- If Mr. K. loved someone -- On the disruption of "one thing at a time" -- Success -- Mr. K. and the cats -- Mr. K.'s favorite animal -- Ancient times -- A good answer -- Praise -- Two cities -- Good turns -- Mr. K. in unfamiliar accommodation -- Mr. K. and consistency -- The father of the thought -- The administration of justice -- Socrates -- The envoy.
- The natural urge to own property -- If sharks were men -- Waiting -- The indispensable civil servant -- A bearable affront -- Mr. K. drives a car -- Mr. K. and poetry -- The horoscope -- Misunderstood -- Two drivers -- Sense of justice -- On friendliness -- [Mr. Keuner and his niece's drawing] -- [On corruptibility] -- [Error and progress] -- [Knowledge of human nature] -- [Mr. Keuner and the flood tide] -- Mr. Keuner and the actress -- [Mr. Keuner and the newspapers} -- On betrayal -- Commentary -- [On the satisfaction of interests] -- The two forfeits -- [Signs of good living] -- [About truth] -- Love of whom? -- Who knows whom? -- [The best style] -- Mr. Keuner and the doctor -- [Alike better than different] -- [The thinking man and the false student] -- [On having a stance] -- [What Mr. Keuner was against] -- [On withstanding storms] -- [Mr. Keuner's illness] -- Incorruptibility -- [A question of guilt] -- [The role of feelings] -- About young Keuner -- [Extravagance].
- [Servant or master] -- [An aristocratic stance] -- [On the development of the big cities] -- On systems -- Architecture -- apparatus and party -- Anger and advice -- Mr. Keuner and exercises -- Mr. Keuner and Mr. Brecht; or, etiquette in dark times.
- ISBN
- 0872863832
- LCCN
- ^^^00065637^
- OCLC
- 45446196
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library