{"product_id":"bertolt-brechts-refugee-conversations-bertolt-brecht-9781350044999","title":"Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations","description":"Published in English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eRefugee Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their world views, their voices and their social experience clash horribly, but they find they have unexpected common ground - especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile, the bureaucracy, and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir conversations are light and swift moving, the subjects under discussion extremely various: beer, cigars, the Germans' love of order, their education and experience of life, art, pornography, politics, 'great men', morality, seriousness, Switzerland, America ... despite the circumstances of both characters there is a wonderfully whimsical serendipity about their dialogue, the logic and the connections often delightfully absurd. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition features a full introduction and notes by Professor Tom Kuhn (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bertolt Brecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350044997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350044999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Bertolt Brecht","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123081670911,"sku":"9781350044999","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be1f5f4b-569d-442d-97c3-166bd1596bf1.jpg?v=1687428815","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bertolt-brechts-refugee-conversations-bertolt-brecht-9781350044999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}