Word: bertolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bertolt Brecht and living with an East Berlin family. According to his father, young Huessy was "positively impressed" with the regime, but he also clung to his faith in the U.S. Shortly before his arrest, he wrote to his parents: "How can I explain to these people that even though I agree with all their criticism of the American system, the Viet Nam War and racism, that there is still something about America which gives it more potential than any system I know...
...such obscene language was rightly censored, and that in any case it was gratuitous in a political film. But for many European intellectuals "obscenity" is an essential part of an "intellectual guerrilla warfare" against the bourgeoisie. One of Le Gai Savoir's last images is a book cover reading Bertolt Brecht- from Rimbaud to Lenin, that is, from scatological to revolutionary. Attacks on bourgeois thought cannot limit themselves to "politics" narrowly defined; epater la bourgeoisie is a political slogan. The censorship of "obscenity" is thus a bourgeois device to restrict free thought. Everything could be discussed under a language that...
...Bertolt Brecht, in Jungle of Cities, assaults our faith in a rational system of motives and rewards. Jungle of Cities presents a challenge, a struggle, and a resolution-but no motivation, no rules, no explanations. It is what professional wrestling would be without the planned choreography and pay off. It is inexplicable in our terms; but the incongruities must be accepted...