附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-553).
The world around Brecht. The city and the land -- The life of the mind -- World War I and its aftermath ; Part One : Bertolt Brecht in Germany 1899-1933. The beginnings : Augsburg and Munich 1898-1920 -- The heaven of the Expressionists -- Brecht's chorales of chaos and doom -- Berlin 1921-1922 : "Drums in the night" -- "In the jungle of cities" -- "Edward the Second" and the Cult of the Heroic -- The surrender of identity : "Man is man" -- In quest of identity : The road to the Epic Theatre -- The social zoo : "The three penny opera" -- The Mahagonny Paradise, 1930 -- The recovery of identity : The Epic Theatre -- Individual and community : The "Lehrstücke" -- Pity is not enough : "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" -- The unknown advance guard : "Mother" -- The advancing terror ; Part two : Exile 1933-1948. The poet speaks about exile -- Battle against the terror -- The responsibility of the intellectual : "Galileo" -- Of heroes and war : "Lucullus" and "Mother Courage" -- This side of good and evil : "The good woman of Setzuan" and "Puntila" -- The fertile womb : "Arturo Ui" -- Reflections of one in flight : "The refugee dialogues" -- The poet on the Gold Coast, 1941-1947 -- A St. Joan of the Resistance : "The visions of Simone Machard" -- The unheroic hero : "Schweyk in the Second World War" -- Justice in utopia : "The Caucasian chalk circle" -- The trial of Bertolt Brecht ; Part three : Homecoming. Within sight of home -- Return to Berlin -- The last works -- The credo of a realist -- The end -- Epilogue.
