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Article: Grosse kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe. 18: Prosa 3: Sammlungen und Dialoge.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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Bertolt Brecht did author three novels, it is true: namely, the Dreigroschenroman, Die Geschafte des Herrn Julius Casar, and the so-called Tui-Roman. But Brecht was not really a novelist; in point of fact, the latter two of those works, however interesting they may be, remained fragments and were published posthumously. That which the playwright from Augsburg really mastered in the art of narration, and most admirably to boot, was the genre of the short story and/or novella, along with sundry related forms of short prose, whether narrative or otherwise. Indeed, not only was this great dramatist and both practitioner and theoretician of the theater a great lyricist and ...