Brecht in Fiction
- In the 1930 novel Success, Brecht's mentor Lion Feuchtwanger immortalized Brecht as the character Kaspar Pröckl.
- In the 2006 film The Lives of Others, a Stasi agent is partially inspired to save a playwright he has been spying on by reading a book of Brecht poetry that he had stolen from the artist's apartment.
- Brecht at Night by Mati Unt, transl. Eric Dickens (Dalkey Archive Press, 2009)
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“Let nothing be called natural
In an age of bloody confusion,
Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
Be held unalterable!”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)