Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations av Bertolt Brecht

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Published in English for the first time, <i>Refugee Conversations</i> is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. <br/><br/>The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their world views, their voices and their social experience clash horribly, but they find they have unexpected common ground - especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile, the bureaucracy, and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts. <br/><br/>Their conversations are light and swift moving, the subjects under discussion extremely various: beer, cigars, the Germans'' love of order, their education and experienc