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Title: Tales of Mr Keuner
Author: BRECHT BERTOLT
Illustrator: REIDEL JAMES(TRANS)
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/04/2019
Imprint: SEAGULL BOOKS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics, and thought. Through the dramatic events of the first half of the twentieth century, Brecht’s Mr. Keuner offered up aphorisms, stray thoughts, and fragments of anecdote that punctured contemporary self-regard about religion, politics, business, and more. Deceptively light in tone, and bite-size in presentation, Mr. Keuner’s comments bring Brecht’s lacerating wit to bear on a wide range of the half-truths and public lies of his era. This graphic novel adaptation sets a number of Brecht’s Mr. Keuner pieces, newly translated, alongside cartoons by German artist Ulf K., whose spare, abstract style lends force to the underlying meanings of Keuner’s pronouncements.
Series: The German List
ISBN: 9780857424716
Dimension: 241mm X 171mm
Pages: 144