The Business Affairs of MR Julius Caesar by Brecht, Bertolt

The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472582720)

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The Business Affairs of MR Julius Caesar by Brecht, Bertolt

The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar

$32.95
The Business Affairs of MR Julius Caesar by Brecht, Bertolt

The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail - as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times.

Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr Julius Caesar.

This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn.

Author: Bertolt Brecht
ISBN-10: 1472582721
ISBN-13: 9781472582720
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d
By Bertolt Brecht
By Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists of the twentieth century whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Anthony Phelan is an Emeritus Fellow of Keble College, the University of Oxford, UK.
Tom Kuhn is Professor of Twentieth-Century German Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.

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