Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Student Editions)

This is an extract from the fourth volume of the Methuen Complete Brecht Plays, now put out by Bloomsbury, and is undoubtedly handy. The editors and translator are the same, and there has been no change to the introduction, text or end-notes. This English version, in fact, is better than the Suhkamp German pocket-text, as it includes 5 extra (viz. discarded) scenes as an appendix. There are two very small anomalies, though: the title page describes the publishing house as 'Bloosmbury [sic] Methurn [sic] Drama' - a bad day for the proof-reader!! And, although saying on the same page that the 'original work' was entitled 'Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches', says on the next page that it was 'Furcht und Elend in das Dritten Reiches [sic]': so is it Fear and Misery *of* the Third Reich (which accords with Suhrkamp), or *in* it? Before one opts for 'of', the 'in' raises an interesting point. SInce Brecht asks (p. 96) whether it will be the 'misery that eventually defeats the fear', a thought strengthened by the play's defiant last word 'NO', we could see the Fear and Misery as dialectically opposed, and therefore a conflict *in* the Third Reich and not simply a reflection *of* it. For discussion! Brecht's play, of course, still reads as a razor-sharp probing of the early days of the Third Reich, and today is even more fascinating as an exploration of gestus (as BB himself comments) than politics. Essential reading.

I bought this for use on my Kindle. I am a mature University Student and in March after my midterm with the lock down it was great to get such easy access to my texts this way. I love this play, Brechtis so clever. Each 'episode' is stark and one can see the strength of the combined 'episodes' when finished reading.It one is interested in a commentary on Germany circa early 1940's it is a worthwhile read as well.

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Exactly like described. Looking forward to reading my new book :)

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This book was bought for my daughter where she used it for her university degree, she loved it, easy to follow great buy