Bertolt Brecht Journals/1934-1955

Brecht's journals remained unpublished till some seventeen years after his death. His family called them his Work Journal to underline their relevance to the plays and productions for which he was best known. They contain many insights into the writing of his major plays in Scandinavian and American exile--The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Good Person of Szechwan, Mother Courage--and their sometimes triumphant, sometimes difficult realisation after his return to East Berlin--Galileo with Charles Laughton being an unsurpassed peak.