Rationality and the Poet: Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings

A lively account of discussions between the young Bertolt Brecht and the Marxian Political Economist Fritz Sternberg, published in English here for the first time.

Rationality and the Poet casts a new light on the development of Brecht’s politics and the relationship between society and drama that informed his art. Set in the late Weimer Republic, these reminiscences chart the rise and fall of the friendship between the poet and the theoretician, from their initial encounters and Brecht’s...