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Brecht and Company: Sex Politics and the Making of the Modern Drama.

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From: The Nation
Date: 19941031
Author:Munk, Erika

In the preface to his new biography of Bertolt Brecht, John Fuegi describes a visit Maxim Gorky made to a Soviet prison camp in the 1920s. The camp had been prettied up for him, and the inmates given newspapers to read so they'd look well treated. They held the papers upside down to alert Gorky that he was being deceived, but he didn't notice and wrote glowingly about the place. "Under the aegis of the Gorky report began the cancerous growth of a system where, according to some estimates, more people died than in Hitler's camps."

Fuegi thinks that unlike Gorky he's no fool. He ...

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