A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II
In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.
He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media.
Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield — all these images contribute to an anthology of horror, from which Brecht’s perceptions are distilled in poems that are razor-sharp, angry and direct.
The result is an outstanding literary memorial to World War Two and one of the most spontaneous, revealing and moving of Brecht’s works.
- ISBN10 1870352467
- ISBN13 9781870352468
- Publish Date 20 March 2001 (first published February 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 September 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Libris
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English