Bertolt Brecht
Henning Wagenbreth (Illustrations)
“Since poverty and baseness leave me cold
My pen falls silent; times are on the move.
Yet all that’s dirtiest in your dirty world Includes, I know, the fact that I approve."
Brecht wrote this Ballad in 1932. It is an ironical and lucid denunciation against bourgeois domination and the different social strata: politicians, military men, judges, policemen
and intellectuals supporting that domination.
Moreover, its perceptive text aims at shaking a society that was going to give power to those who “are about to slit humanity’s throat”.
My pen falls silent; times are on the move.
Yet all that’s dirtiest in your dirty world Includes, I know, the fact that I approve."
Brecht wrote this Ballad in 1932. It is an ironical and lucid denunciation against bourgeois domination and the different social strata: politicians, military men, judges, policemen
and intellectuals supporting that domination.
Moreover, its perceptive text aims at shaking a society that was going to give power to those who “are about to slit humanity’s throat”.
155 x 155 mm; 40 pgs. Hardback with dust jacket.
