The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht

The Good Person of Szechwan

Bertolt Brecht with Ralph Manheim (Translator), John Willett (Translator)

147 pages first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging dark slow-paced
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Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hear...

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