Volume 31, Number 4 · March 15, 1984
Aimez-Vous Brecht?
By James Fenton
Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches
by John Willett
Methuen, 274 pp., $17.95
Brecht: A Biography
by Ronald Hayman
Oxford University Press, 423 pp., $24.95
Auden used to say that of the literary men he had known only three struck him as positively evil: Frost, Yeats, and Brecht. John Willett tells us this, and Ronald Hayman goes further. Auden said that Brecht was one of the few people who deserved the death sentence—'In fact I can imagine doing it to him myself.' Willett and Hayman make a point of understanding and forgiving a great deal in their subject. Here is a quote from the early Brecht:
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