by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518188255
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«Der gute Mensch von Sezuan: Text und Kommentar» is the play by Bertolt Brecht, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (213 pages, in German).
Three gods visit the Chinese city of Sezuan looking for a truly good person; they only find Shen Te, a kind-hearted prostitute. With the reward she opens a shop, but discovers that being good is almost impossible in a corrupt and needy world. To survive without giving up goodness, she creates her ruthless cousin Shui Ta.
This edition is number 25 of the Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek and includes commentary by Wolfgang Jeske and referenced bibliography.
Edition designed for German students and readers who want to approach the work with glossary and interpretation references.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
