Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980
Taking Brecht's Measure
By Michael Wood
Brecht: A Biography
by Klaus Völker, translated by John Howell
Seabury Press, 412 pp., $14.95
Poems 1913-1956
by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett, edited by Ralph Manheim, with the cooperation of Erich Fried
Methuen, 628 pp., $12.50 (paper)
Diaries 1920-1922
by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Herta Ramthun, translated by John Willett
St. Martin's Press, 182 pp., $8.95
Bertolt Brecht was a teacher of doubt, carried with him on his many forced travels a Chinese scroll representing the Doubter. He distinguished firmly between doubt and vacillation, and he seems to have thought that even doubt, or at least the expression of doubt, was politically undesirable at times. But his writings are unequivocal on this score.
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