Bertolt BRECHT

New edition of the French adaptation, here at the T.N.P. by Jeanne Stern and Geneviève Serreau.
Spine lightly sunned.
We include the program from the performance at the Théâtre National Populaire, the back cover bearing blue ballpoint pen deletions.

New edition of the French adaptation, here at T.N.P. by Jean-Claude Hémery and Geneviève Serreau.
Spine lightly sunned, small marginal tear to front cover.
We include the program from the performance at the Théâtre National Populaire.

Original typescript in German signed by Bertolt Brecht, 22 lines on one leaf. One typewritten correction. Slight traces of folds, and a few parts shadowed.
Published in Brecht's correspondence (GBA, Briefe 3).
Important definition by Brecht of his famous Verfremdungseffekt, the the­atrical distancing or "alienation" he coined and popularized, for audiences to reach an intellectual level of under­standing of theater, instead of being trapped in an illusory narrative world. The playwright sets out the political and aesthetic mission of these dra­matic effects for French audiences. A rare theoretical writing in private hands, the majority of his papers be­ing at the Akademie der...