That Brecht was a nasty piece of work, and he didn’t even write his own plays
Michael Hofmann, 20 October 1994
The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht
by John Fuegi.
HarperCollins, 732 pp., £25, July 1994,0 00 255386 4 Show More
by John Fuegi.
HarperCollins, 732 pp., £25, July 1994,
“... I have never read a life like John Fuegi’s of Brecht. Revisionism doesn’t begin to describe it. This is dartboard stuff, effigy abuse, voodoo biography. If Fuegi could get inside the Dorotheenfriedhof, uproot Brecht’s jagged scalene headstone, dig through six feet of Brandenburg sand and a zinc coffin, and do something to the remains involving chicken heads, inverted crosses and black candles, I don’t doubt that he would ... ”