{"product_id":"9781350044999","title":"Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBertolt Brecht | Tom Kuhn | Romy Fursland\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Theater \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eRefugee Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their world views, their voices and their social experience clash horribly, but they find they have unexpected common ground – especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile, the bureaucracy, and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir conversations are light and swift moving, the subjects under discussion extremely various: beer, cigars, the Germans' love of order, their education and experience of life, art, pornography, politics, 'great men', morality, seriousness, Switzerland, America ... despite the circumstances of both characters there is a wonderfully whimsical serendipity about their dialogue, the logic and the connections often delightfully absurd. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition features a full introduction and notes by Professor Tom Kuhn (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBertolt Brecht \u003c\/b\u003e(1898–1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFear and Misery of the Third Reich\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Galileo,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMother Courage and Her Children \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Caucasian Chalk Circle.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Kuhn\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of 20th-century German Literature at St   Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK, and General Editor of Methuen Drama's Brecht publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 October 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMethuen Drama\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350044999\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e128\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5.6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332618027148,"sku":"9781350044999","price":34.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_8697da19-94fe-4f4b-b957-8045f2d10938.jpg?v=1783604493","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350044999","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}