Tales of Mr Keuner
‘What are you doing here, Keuner?’
‘I am very troubled. I am preparing for my next mistake,’ answered Mr K.
From the s to the s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics and thought. Through the dramatic events of the first half of the twentieth century, Brecht’s Mr Keuner offered up aphorisms, stray thoughts and fragments of anecdote that punctured contemporary self-regard about religion, politics, business and more. Deceptively light in tone, and bite-size in presentation, Mr Keuner’s comments bring Brecht’s lacerating wit to bear on a wide range of the half-truths and public lies of his era.
This graphic-novel adaptation sets a number of Brecht’s Mr Keuner pieces, newly translated, alongside cartoons by German artist Ulf K., whose spare, abstract style lends force to the underlying meanings of Keuner’s pronouncements.
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Stories of Mr. Keuner
Stories of Mr. Keuner gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life and exile. Written from the late s till the late s, Stories of Mr. Keuner is the precipitate of Brecht's experience of a world in political and cultural flux, a world of revolution, civil war, world war, cultural efflorescence, Nazism, Stalinism and the Cold War--in short, the first half of the twentieth century.
Mr. Keuner said, "I, too, once adopted an aristocratic stance (you know: erect, upright and proud, head thrown back). I was standing in rising water at the time. I adopted this posture when it rose to my chin."
"At first, they appear almost innocuous, these so-called stories, anecdotal fragments often of a single page or less. Brecht's scenarios seem so simple, his style so direct. He expressly wished what he wrote to be useful. Here he succeeded brilliantly: These pieces are small enough to be carried away whole, but what they say is big enough to be equal to the reader."--Johnathon Keats, SF Gate
"Stories of Mr. Keuner finally puts in English translation this startling and stunning body of work, not only encouraging a broader appreciation of
Storie del signor Keuner
Parabole, aneddoti, aforismi: nelle Storie del signor Keuner Brecht attinge alle forme della sapienza orientale per mettere a soqquadro le certezze di ogni pensiero troppo definito e sicuro di sé. Nei dubbi che insinua, a volte con ironia abrasiva, Keuner, alter ego di Brecht, prende le distanze da tutti i poteri e svela l&#;ipocrisia degli uomini suggerendo che la verità sta sempre da un&#;altra parte rispetto a dove la si cerca.
Prefazione di Moni Ovadia.
Brecht ha scritto le Storie del signor Keuner a partire dagli anni Venti fino alla morte, come una sorta di scrittura continua, collaterale rispetto alla sua produzione poetica, teatrale e saggistica.
La recente scoperta di molti autografi brechtiani a Zurigo ha permesso di integrare con quindici testi inediti la serie già conosciuta del signor Keuner, a suo tempo pubblicata nelle Storie da calendario. Questo volume segue la prima edizione integrale tedesca del
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«Parabole, aneddoti, aforismi: nelle Storie del signor Keuner Brecht attinge alle forme della sapienza orientale per mettere a soqquadro le certezze di ogni pensiero troppo definito e sicuro di sé. Nei dubbi che insinua, a volte con ironia abrasiva, Keuner, alter ego di Brecht, prende le distanze da tutti i poteri e svela l'ipocrisia degli uomini suggerendo che la verità sta sempre da un'altra parte rispetto a dove la si cerca». Dalla Prefazione di Moni Ovadia
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