Book jacket: Known primarily as a dramatist, Bertolt Brecht was also a gifted poet. These fifty poems--among them many ballads that later became part of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, and Baal--reveal the tremendous range and versatility of Brecht's expression. His first and best book of poetry, Manual of Piety uses the traditional form of devotional literature to provide both an irreverant spoof and a serious critique of the post-World War I European (and more specifically, German) culture that gave rise to fascism. His characteristically sly wit combines with mordant social commentary to make Manual of Piety Brecht at his most hilarious--and also his most brutally incisive.
- ISBN10 0802132456
- ISBN13 9780802132451
- Publish Date 7 April 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Edition Evergreen ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 312
- Language English