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Emigrant Diaries. 1938–1955

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The "Work Journal," as Bertolt Brecht's diaries were called, was kept by the greatest playwright of the 20th century from 1938 to 1955—during his years of exile from Germany and after his return. The piercing honesty with which he responded to current events became the tuning fork for these entries. He applied the criterion of political and artistic honesty to everything around him—performances, texts, ideas, and people. While moving between countries, losing loved ones, engaging in ideological debates, and working on plays, Brecht pasted newspaper clippings into his diary—a chronicle of the disintegration of the world, and then a chronicle of the new reality.

Reflections on the theory of "epic theater" on these pages sit alongside notes on constant travel, a pet dog, a hatred of Hollywood, debates with Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno, and Leon Feuchtwanger's unwavering faith in the Soviet victory. Sketch, doubt, self-censorship, anger, irony: all the layers are visible, as if in a storyboard; this is a rare glimpse into the creative laboratory of a genius, an intellectual who lived in an era of totalitarianism and war, an era when thinking about literature seemed almost obscene.
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