The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht by John Fuegi

The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht

by John Fuegi

HarperCollins Publishers, 1994, b/w photographs, hardcover, dustjacket,  ISBN 0002553864

Near Fine Condition, remainder line to base edge, minor bumps to edges of dustjacket

'Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and diaries made available to the author by Brecht's widow and son, interviews and intelligence files, Fuegi reveals a lifetime of personal and political deception.  he shows that as much as eighty percent of works such as The Threepenny Opera, which have given Brecht his iconic stature, were written in a 'sex-for-text scheme' by other writers, particularly Elisabeth Hauptmann, but also Grete Steffin and Ruth Berlay, three of his lovers.'