Current Events and Literature. Brecht's Work Diary.

"It would be unbelievably difficult to express the emotional circumstances in which I follow the battle for Britain on the radio and in the bad Finnish-Swedish newspapers and at the same time Puntila. This spiritual phenomenon makes lear that such a war can be and that literary work always be carried on. Puntila concerns me almost not at all, the war completely; about Puntila I can write almost everything, about the war nothing. I don't mean "may," I really mean "can."
It is interesting how far literature, in practice, is removed from the center of all decisive events."

Bertoldt Brecht. Arbeitsjournal (Work Journals) 1938-1955. page 59.


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