by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518100738
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«Der gute Mensch von Sezuan» is the play by Bertolt Brecht, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (160 pages, in German).
The action is set in Sezuan, where three gods seek a good person and find Shen Teh, a generous young woman who discovers that her goodness ruins her. To keep her business and continue helping, she invents a stern, calculating cousin, Shui Ta. The drama thus asks whether it is possible to be good and survive in an unjust world.
Number 73 in the edition suhrkamp series; the work is subtitled Parabelstück and consists of ten scenes, a prologue, an epilogue and seven interludes.
Suitable for students of German working with literature in the original and for readers interested in twentieth-century classical theatre.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
