The Evil Baal, the Asocial, and the Poetic in Brecht:
Maier-Schaeffer, Francine
The Evil Baal, the Asocial, and the Poetic in Brecht: - 2004.
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Brecht’s fragments are neither traditional nor even fragments in the postmodern sense. Rather, they are the work of “the man who thinks while he walks and according to the truth of the walk” (Blanchot). It is not fortuitous that the great period of ideological and dramatic experiment in the second half of the 1920s, between the shock of the “big city” and the rise of Nazism, was a great period for fragments. This paper shows the importance of these fragments for understanding Brecht’s literary production as a whole through a reading of the fragment of the didactic play Der böse Baal der Asoziale.
The Evil Baal, the Asocial, and the Poetic in Brecht: - 2004.
44
Brecht’s fragments are neither traditional nor even fragments in the postmodern sense. Rather, they are the work of “the man who thinks while he walks and according to the truth of the walk” (Blanchot). It is not fortuitous that the great period of ideological and dramatic experiment in the second half of the 1920s, between the shock of the “big city” and the rise of Nazism, was a great period for fragments. This paper shows the importance of these fragments for understanding Brecht’s literary production as a whole through a reading of the fragment of the didactic play Der böse Baal der Asoziale.
Réseaux sociaux