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War Primer

Bertolt Brecht

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English
Verso
01 July 2017
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.

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Imprint:   Verso
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   221g
ISBN:   9781784782085
ISBN 10:   1784782084
Pages:   112
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Bertold Brecht (1898-1956), the German poet and playwright, was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the USA to Switzerland in 1947, and to east Berlin in 1949. One of his country's greatest 20th century poets, among his most famous plays are The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage, Life of Galileo andThe Caucasian Chalk-Circle.

Reviews for War Primer

An album of pity and anger which fixes the evil of war for all time. --Observer A handsome edition of War Primer, a series of short poems illustrated and inspired by war photographs Brecht clipped from newspapers. --David Edgar, London Review of Books Tender, angry and incisive. --Independent A modern equivalent of Goya. --Guardian Brecht reprinted photographs from wartime mass-circulation magazines, replacing the captions with short poems about the essential truth of each image. --Daily Telegraph Deserves a place of the shelves of every public and school library. --Times Literary Supplement


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