Stories of Mr. Keuner

Stories of Mr. Keuner gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life and exile. Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, Stories of Mr. Keuner is the precipitate of Brecht's experience of a world in political and cultural flux, a world of revolution, civil war, world war, cultural efflorescence, Nazism, Stalinism and the Cold War—in short, the first half of the twentieth century.

Mr. Keuner said, "I, too, once adopted an aristocratic stance (you know: erec...