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Poor. New York. 1979. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312077033. Edited by Herta Ramthun. Translated form the German by John Willett. 182 pages. hardcover. Front: Brecht and Bi Banholzer in Augsburg c.1919) Back: Brecht in Berlin (end 1922). keywords: Europe Germany Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-The young Brecht of these diaries will surprise readers more familiar with the author of The Threepenny Opera or the mature political dramatist. Here he is still an inattentive Munich university student, spending much of his time in his home town of Augsburg or the lovely Bavarian country-side. His concern is largely with his friends, his love affairs and his illegitimate child, but again and again it turns to his reading and his own literary work. He is self-centred, unpolitical, making the odd slighting reference to Jews, blacks and the USSR. His attitude to women will enrage many readers. But he can write. There are early poems included, some of them previously unknown; there are notes on his work in progress (notably the plays Drums in the Night, In the jungle and Man equals Man under its original title of Galgei) and also a number of more reflective passages later embodied in the German edition of his critical writings. There are stimulating reflections on religion, and interesting projects for stories and plays which were never fully worked out. It all provides fresh insights into the mind and working methods of a great poet. Here we can see Brecht's writings in context. Part of this context is the irresistible love affair with Marianne Zoff which develops during a gap in the diary and thereafter dominates everything, driving him to fury, despair and disgust. Seldom can a man have loved a woman and said such damning and discreditable things about her; in the force of the language and the openness of the physical detail no holds are barred. When Brecht in The Threepenny Opera wrote a ballad of c 'sexual obsession it is clear that he knew what he was talking about. inventory #1582.
